A Bridge Too Far (film)
A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough. The ensemble cast includes Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann. The movie is based on World War II’s failed Operation Market Garden, which involved 35,000 men being flown 300 miles from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands.
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A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough and with a screenplay by William Goldman. The ensemble cast includes Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann. The film received a tepid critical response, the film received several awards: at the 31st BAFTA Awards, it won four out of eight categories, including Fox for Best Supporting Actor and John Addison—who himself had served in the British XXX Corps during Market Garden—for Best Score. It was the second film based. on a book by historian Cornelius Ryan to be adapted for the screen. The movie is based on World War II’s failed Operation Market Garden, which involved 35,000 men being flown 300 miles from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands. The airborne drops catch the Germans by surprise and there is little resistance. Most of the men come down safely and assemble quickly, but the Germans are unable to reinforce the Allies in the battle. The Allies enter the battle too late and the Germans allow a brief ceasefire in house-to-house fighting against crack infantry and pan-gunned troops. After the battle, Urquhart escapes the battle zone with fewer than a fifth of his original troops captured; the original ten thousand troops are captured in the fighting.
The Germans close in on the isolated British paratroops occupying part of Arnhem at the bridge, although armored attacks are repelled. The battle ends with the Allies forced to withdraw to Oosterbeek, where they are forced to blame the various circumstances on their failure to provide the support needed to provide support: the other Allied commanders blame the other commanders for the failure to do what was needed. The British are to land using gliders near Arnhem and hold both sides of the bridge there, backed by a brigade of Polish paratroopers under General Stanisław Sosabowski. Arnhem’s is the crucial bridge, the last means of escape for the German forces in the Dutch and an excellent route to Germany for Allied forces. The road to it, however, is only a single highway linking the various key bridges – trucks and tanks have to squeeze to the shoulder to pass. XXX Corps’ progress to relieve them is slowed by German resistance, the narrowness of the highway and the need to construct a Bailey bridge to replace the one destroyed at Son. There, soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division perform a dangerous daylight river crossing in flimsy canvas-and-wood assault boats and the Nijmegen bridge is captured.
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