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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 ...
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.
A Bridge Too Far is a war movie too long, although top-notch talent on both sides of the camera keeps the end result consistently watchable. Read Critics Reviews
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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.
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
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 59% of 29 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.10/10. The website's consensus reads: "A Bridge Too Far is a war movie too long, although top-notch talent on both sides of the camera keeps the end result consistently watchable."
A Bridge Too Far Review. Epic, all-star retelling of one of the most notorious failed missions of World War II: the Allied attempt to capture several key bridges in Holland that led to the...
Futility and frustration are the overriding emotional elements in A Bridge Too Far, Joseph E. Levine's sprawling Second World War production [from the novel by Cornelius Ryan] about a 1944 military operation botched by both Allied and German troops. Read More. FULL REVIEW.
A thoroughly disappointing and overproduced picture, A Bridge Too Far is nevertheless technically impressive and its sheer scope may interest hardcore warmongers. A Bridge Too Far is a fantastic historical and cinematic achievement but, if you're not a die-hard war obsessive, prepare to snooze.
Jan 1, 1977 · Reviews. Dec 31, 1976 11:00pm PT. A Bridge Too Far. Futility and frustration are the overriding emotional elements in A Bridge Too Far, Joseph E. Levine's sprawling Second World War production...
