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“A Bridge Too Far” could have been made at any time during the past 30 years and probably better, too, except that in the old days the studio heads would have vetoed it. It's a 170-minute downer about Operation Market Garden, an abortive attempt to land 35,000 paratroops behind the German lines, but why make a movie about total defeat and ...
Futility and frustration are the overriding emotional elements in A Bridge Too Far, Joseph E. Levine's sprawling Second World War production. Full Review | Dec 10, 2008
A Bridge Too Far PG Released Jun 15, 1977 2h 59m War Drama List 59% Tomatometer 29 Reviews 85% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings Late in 1944, the Allies seem to have the upper hand in the...
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- Richard Attenborough
- PG
- Dirk Bogarde
A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film directed by Richard Attenborough. It depicts Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film's screenplay, by William Goldman, is based on a book of the same title by historian Cornelius Ryan.
Jun 15, 1977 · A Bridge Too Far: Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Siem Vroom, Marlies van Alcmaer, Erik van 't Wout, Wolfgang Preiss. Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
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- Drama, History, War
- Richard Attenborough
- 1977-06-15
A Bridge Too Far is a very good war film - maybe the biggest war film ever conceived (The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan included) - and I feel that, although it has a few casting flaws, it is in almost every other department a great, great achievement.
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A Bridge Too Far. For this wildly ambitious WWII epic, Richard Attenborough assembled one of the starriest male casts in cinema’s long years, and set them to work try trying to wrestle a...
