Andrew V. McLaglen passed away on Saturday at the age of 94. I know him as the director of "Mitchell", my favorite episode of MST3K. He also directed a sequel to Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron", "Breakthrough", which is available on YouTube in it's entirety. I bought it on VHS a few months ago at the Goodwill store, I think I'll give it a spin in his honor.
This guy was king of the WWII sequel, as he also did a sequel to "The Dirty Dozen" called "The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission", and that's available on Warner Archive Instant.
He even did an unofficial sequel to "Bridge on the River Kwai", "Return From the River Kwai"
Both Netflix and Hulu have "McLintock!", his 1963 comedy western with The Duke available to stream. The Duke made the same amount of movies with McLaglen as he did with Howard Hawks: five.
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