In the battle that follows, both the living and the dead will discover that a war waged in hell could have consequences that resound forever ...

And the historic parts are cleaned up and used as tourists attractions, which was less useful for this movie. Is it true that you used real rats during the plague scenes? We used about 5,000 real ...

to name but three – but the other one that was most significantly improved by its far greater length was his Crusades epic ...

Hung, drawn and quartered. They're hammered and blown to pieces with dynamite and their skeletons left in the open to rot. I even find time for a game of car jousting. It's Heaven then, and Hell.

Between Heaven and Hell is a good, hard-hitting action film, replete with the usual heroics but also full with the ugly realization that the men who fought World War II were far from perfect.