The music is surprisingly spare and intimate, without the kind of enveloping and sweeping thematic material typical of the genre.
Frankel was a serious composer with a style of his own and avoided most of the expected cliches that one would anticipate in a score for a film of this kind. Benjamin Frankel's music for the movie The Battle of the Bulge was, along with the staging of the combat scenes, one of the few shining elements in a deeply flawed film.
