A Bridge Too Far

An all-star cast recreates the fateful World War II battle for Arnhem. The First Airborne Division parachutes into occupied Holland in 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious Allied plan to capture six Dutch bridges and cut off the Germans, but events conspire to threaten the whole operation. Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan., An all-star cast re-creates the fateful World War II battle for Arnhem. The First Airborne Division parachutes into occupied Holland in 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious Allied plan to capture six Dutch bridges and cut off the Germans, but events conspire to threaten the whole operation. Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan., The late Richard Attenborough’s all-star war epic tells of the daring, but ultimately doomed, Allied plan to end the war early. With Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins. (1977)(168 mins), It’s late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they’ll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What’s needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Germany. Paratroops led by British major general Robert Urquhart (Sean Connery) and American brigadier general James Gavin (Ryan O’Neal) will seize a thin road and five bridges through Holland into Germany, with paratroops led by Lieutenant Col. John Frost (Sir Anthony Hopkins) holding the most critical bridge at a small town called Arnhem. Over this road shall pass combined forces led by British Lieutenant Gen. Brian Horrocks (Edward Fox) and British Lieutenant Col. Joe Vandeleur (Michael Caine). The plan requires precise timing, so much so that one planner tells Lieutenant Gen. Frederick Browning (Dirk Bogarde), “Sir, I think we may be going a bridge too far.” The plan also has one critical flaw: Instead of a smattering of German soldiers, the area around Arnhem is loaded with crack SS troops. Disaster ensues. Based on a book by historian Cornelius Ryan, A Bridge Too Far is reminiscent of another movie based on a Ryan book, The Longest Day. Like that movie, it is loaded with more than 15 international stars, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Hardy Krueger, Gene Hackman, Maximilian Schell, and Liv Ullman., Gripping and controversial tale about a daring WWII military operation., An all-star cast including Michael Caine, Lawrence Olivier, Sean Connery and Dirk Bogarde recreates the fateful World War II battle for Arnhem. The First Airborne Division parachutes into occupied Holland in 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious Allied plan to capture six Dutch bridges and cut off the Germans, but events conspire to threaten the whole operation. Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan., Richard Attenborough’s all-star war epic tells of the daring, but ultimately doomed, Allied plan to end the war early., Epic BAFTA-winning war film starring Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal and Robert Redford. (1977), A historical telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges on a road to Germany in World War II, in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden., An all-star cast recreates the fateful World War II battle for Arnhem. The First Airborne Division parachutes into occupied Holland in 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious Allied plan to capture six Dutch bridges and cut off the Germans, but events conspire to threaten the whole operation., Allied military leaders concoct an elaborate plan to capture a Nazi-held bridge in Holland. Their ambitions get them into serious trouble when they discover there are far more enemy troops stationed there than they had imagined., Buoyed by recent victories, the Allied forces execute a bold, but ultimately ill-fated, plan to end WWII early., Allied Forces attempt to cross the Rhine into Germany toward the end of WWII. The action involves history’s largest airborne assault and results in bloody, hard-fought battles., Epic adaptation of Cornelius Ryan’s best-seller about one of World War II’s Allied military blunders.