A Bridge Too Far

1977

2h 55m

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7.2/10

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The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.

Directors

Richard Attenborough

Writers

William Goldman(screenplay by)

Cornelius Ryan(novel by)

Stars

Dirk Bogarde

James Caan

Michael Caine

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Dirk Bogarde

Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning

James Caan

SSgt. Eddie Dohun

Michael Caine

Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur

Sean Connery

Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart

Edward Fox

Lt. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks

Elliott Gould

Col. Robert Stout

Anthony Hopkins

Lt. Col. John D. Frost

Gene Hackman

Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski

Hardy Krüger

Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Karl Ludwig

Laurence Olivier

Dr. Jan Spaander

Ryan O'Neal

Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin

Robert Redford

Maj. Julian Cook

Maximilian Schell

General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich

Liv Ullmann

Kate ter Horst

Siem Vroom

Underground Leader

Marlies van Alcmaer

Underground Leader's Wife

Erik van 't Wout

Underground Leader's Son

Wolfgang Preiss

Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt

Directors

Richard Attenborough

Writers

William Goldman(screenplay by)

Cornelius Ryan(novel by)

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7/10

Usually when you read the term "stellar" applied to a cast, it's more for marketing purposes to convince us that the cast is better than we might want to think - well not so, here. Connery, Caine, O'Neal, Olivier, Bogarde, Hackman, Hopkins, Caan, Schell & Liv Ullmann all chip into this true telling of "Operation Market Garden" - a co-ordinated attempt by the allies to use almost anything that will fly to parachute troops behind Nazi lines. Their purpose: to secure strategically important river crossings before the enemy have a chance to blow them to smithereens. Their missions are fraught with dangers - bad intelligence, bad weather as well as a tenacious and well established enemy. The planning and actions scenes give a clear dramatic indication of just how logistically complex and risky this whole procedure actually would have been; and as war films go it is much less gung-ho. It is, however, very long - and a bit more judicious editing would have helped keep it more taut.

Geronimo196704 Jun, 2023