A Bridge Too Far (15)
- Run time: 2 hours 56 mins
- Genre: War
- Release date: 23rd June 1977
- Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine
- Directed by: Richard Attenborough
- Official Website: http://www.mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=BRIDGETO
- Distributor: United Artists
Plot Synopsis
Richard Attenborough's epic all-star re-creation of the Arnhem debacle: Field Marshal Montgomery and General Eisenhower’s plan to parachute 35,000 Allied troops into the Netherlands and take six bridges that would have shortened the war considerably.
Operation Market Garden was the codename of this allied operation towards the end of the W.W.II that all went horribly wrong, bad weather conditions and the troops running into a Panzer division resting in Arnhem that wasn't supposed to be there.
The battle scenes are highly effective and everyone is on parade for this one: Dirk Bogarde, the cool c-in-c; Edward Fox, the larger-than-life Horrocks; Gene Hackman a heroic Pole; Anthony Hopkins stoically surrounded; plus Connery, Caine, Redford, Olivier and all.
