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A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film directed by Richard Attenborough. Depicting Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, and based on a book of the same name by historian Cornelius Ryan, the film was directed by Richard Attenborough and with a screenplay by William Goldman.
- $50.7 million
- June 15, 1977
- $25 million
- John Addison
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.
- (60K)
- Drama, History, War
- Richard Attenborough
- 1977-06-15
A combined British and American paratrooper force, led by American general Gavin and British general Urquhart (Sean Connery), plans to take a highway leading from the Netherlands into Germany, so...
- (1.3K)
- Richard Attenborough
- PG
- Dirk Bogarde
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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 ...
Synopsis. A black and white documentary explains that in September 1944, British Field Marshal Montgomery devised a campaign called Operation Market Garden to outflank the German Army in Holland and end World War II by Christmas.
A Bridge Too Far. An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden. 2,888 IMDb 7.4 2 h 56 min 1977. X-Ray PG.
