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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Kuhnecke, an early Nazi capable of more PragmaticVillainy than Hirth, is a chilling but multidimensional antagonist, but he [[spoiler:dies less than halfway through the film]], before meeting Scott or the Hutterites.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Kuhnecke, an early Nazi Party member capable of more PragmaticVillainy than Hirth, is a chilling but multidimensional antagonist, but he [[spoiler:dies less than halfway through the film]], before meeting Scott or the Hutterites.
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* EnsembleDarkHorse:
** German TokenGoodTeammate Vogel has a secondary role but is easily the source of some of the film's most iconic and intriguing moments.
** Johnny, the TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth HunterTrapper played by a PlayingAgainstType Creator/LaurenceOlivier and Andy Brock (who gives Hirth his KarmaHoudiniWarranty) each only appears in a brief section of the film but are among the best-liked characters.
* FanonDiscontinuity: [[spoiler:Some fans would prefer to ignore the death of Vogel, due to the tragedy of his HeelFaceDoorSlam and how it can feel like an AssPull that his comrades both take the time to execute him in a formal manner and are able to do so without anyone stopping them.]]
** German TokenGoodTeammate Vogel has a secondary role but is easily the source of some of the film's most iconic and intriguing moments.
** Johnny, the TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth HunterTrapper played by a PlayingAgainstType Creator/LaurenceOlivier and Andy Brock (who gives Hirth his KarmaHoudiniWarranty) each only appears in a brief section of the film but are among the best-liked characters.
* FanonDiscontinuity: [[spoiler:Some fans would prefer to ignore the death of Vogel, due to the tragedy of his HeelFaceDoorSlam and how it can feel like an AssPull that his comrades both take the time to execute him in a formal manner and are able to do so without anyone stopping them.]]
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** Interestingly enough, Portman would later play a U-boat officer again in ''Film/TheBedfordIncident'', which would be the closest thing to a spiritual sequel to this film, only this time to be set during the Cold War, with Portman's character to be a former Kreigsmarine officer-turned-NATO adviser. It is as though in the film, Hirth, after getting captured and imprisoned by the Allies at the end of this film, gets pardoned after the war, only to be DemotedToExtra in contrast to his leading role in this movie, but pulled a HeelFaceTurn (which can double as RedemptionDemotion) following the fall of the Third Reich, helping the government that was once his enemy and having become OlderAndWiser unlike before when he was rash and blindly fanatical.
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** Interestingly enough, Portman would later play a U-boat officer again in ''Film/TheBedfordIncident'', which would be the closest thing to a spiritual sequel to this film, only this time to be set during the Cold War, with Portman's character to be a former Kreigsmarine officer-turned-NATO adviser. It is as though in the film, Hirth, after getting captured and imprisoned by the Allies at the end of this film, gets pardoned after the war, only to be DemotedToExtra in contrast to his leading role in this movie, but pulled a HeelFaceTurn (which can double as RedemptionDemotion) following the fall of the Third Reich, helping the government that was once his enemy and having become OlderAndWiser unlike before when he was rash and blindly fanatical.fanatical.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Kuhnecke, an early Nazi capable of more PragmaticVillainy than Hirth, is a chilling but multidimensional antagonist, but he [[spoiler:dies less than halfway through the film]], before meeting Scott or the Hutterites.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Kuhnecke, an early Nazi capable of more PragmaticVillainy than Hirth, is a chilling but multidimensional antagonist, but he [[spoiler:dies less than halfway through the film]], before meeting Scott or the Hutterites.
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* SpiritualPredecessor:
** This film along with the Creator/ErrolFlynn film ''Film/NorthernPursuit'' can considered to be ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'' except [[RecycledInSpace set in WWII Canada with the Nazis being the invaders rather than Treasury robbers]], as they have a premise about a small DwindlingParty of terrorists stranded on a snowy mountainous terrain (which gets a dose of SceneryPorn) and trying to escape, while in the process being the HateSink group for their countless acts of KickTheDog cruelty to a point the audience would cheer for TheHero to put a stop to them. Hirth's actor Eric Portman even bares some physical facial resemblance to Creator/JohnLithgow, who plays the BigBad of ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'' Quelen who shares the same first name Eric with Portman, while presenting himself as an EvilBrit much like how Portman is a British actor despite playing a German. In addition, the plot similarities include the villains suffering a plane crash at the beginning which result in the death of the pilot (Kuhnecke in this film, Mike in ''Cliffhanger''), the sole remaining henchman selfishly turning against his leader after having enough of his bad leadership skills that led to his downfall (Lohrmann in this film, Travers in ''Cliffhanger'') and finally the main villain at the end getting his at a mountainside by being at the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by a heroic underdog service character (Hirth getting pummeled by Canadian soldier Andy Brock in a train car as the goes back to Canada as it pass by the mountains on a bridge, while Quelen is defeated by Creator/SylvesterStallone as a mountain ranger in a brawl and falls to his death in a HellishCopter from the mountain cliffside).
** Interestingly enough, Portman would later play a U-boat officer again in ''Film/TheBedfordIncident'', which would be the closest thing to a spiritual sequel to this film, only this time to be set during the Cold War, with Portman's character to be a former Kreigsmarine officer-turned-NATO adviser. It is as though in the film, Hirth, after getting captured and imprisoned by the Allies at the end of this film, gets pardoned after the war, only to be DemotedToExtra in contrast to his leading role in this movie, but pulled a HeelFaceTurn (which can double as RedemptionDemotion) following the fall of the Third Reich, helping the government that was once his enemy and having become OlderAndWiser unlike before when he was rash and blindly fanatical.
** This film along with the Creator/ErrolFlynn film ''Film/NorthernPursuit'' can considered to be ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'' except [[RecycledInSpace set in WWII Canada with the Nazis being the invaders rather than Treasury robbers]], as they have a premise about a small DwindlingParty of terrorists stranded on a snowy mountainous terrain (which gets a dose of SceneryPorn) and trying to escape, while in the process being the HateSink group for their countless acts of KickTheDog cruelty to a point the audience would cheer for TheHero to put a stop to them. Hirth's actor Eric Portman even bares some physical facial resemblance to Creator/JohnLithgow, who plays the BigBad of ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'' Quelen who shares the same first name Eric with Portman, while presenting himself as an EvilBrit much like how Portman is a British actor despite playing a German. In addition, the plot similarities include the villains suffering a plane crash at the beginning which result in the death of the pilot (Kuhnecke in this film, Mike in ''Cliffhanger''), the sole remaining henchman selfishly turning against his leader after having enough of his bad leadership skills that led to his downfall (Lohrmann in this film, Travers in ''Cliffhanger'') and finally the main villain at the end getting his at a mountainside by being at the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by a heroic underdog service character (Hirth getting pummeled by Canadian soldier Andy Brock in a train car as the goes back to Canada as it pass by the mountains on a bridge, while Quelen is defeated by Creator/SylvesterStallone as a mountain ranger in a brawl and falls to his death in a HellishCopter from the mountain cliffside).
** Interestingly enough, Portman would later play a U-boat officer again in ''Film/TheBedfordIncident'', which would be the closest thing to a spiritual sequel to this film, only this time to be set during the Cold War, with Portman's character to be a former Kreigsmarine officer-turned-NATO adviser. It is as though in the film, Hirth, after getting captured and imprisoned by the Allies at the end of this film, gets pardoned after the war, only to be DemotedToExtra in contrast to his leading role in this movie, but pulled a HeelFaceTurn (which can double as RedemptionDemotion) following the fall of the Third Reich, helping the government that was once his enemy and having become OlderAndWiser unlike before when he was rash and blindly fanatical.
