1977 Directed by Richard Attenborough
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Dirk Bogarde James Caan Michael Caine Sean Connery Edward Fox Elliott Gould Anthony Hopkins Gene Hackman Hardy Krüger Laurence Olivier Ryan O'Neal Robert Redford Maximilian Schell Liv Ullmann Siem Vroom Marlies van Alcmaer Erik van 't Wout Wolfgang Preiss Hans von Borsody Josephine Peeper Paul Maxwell Walter Kohut Peter Faber Hartmut Becker Frank Grimes Jeremy Kemp Donald Pickering Donald Douglas Peter Settelen Show All…
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Seventies WWII movies are a strange beast. There’s a bit of that gritty realism creeping in on films that at their core, still want to be triumphant feel-gooders. Rather than a battle between the Nazis and the allies, this production feels like a struggle between new American and classic British cinema. It’s James Caan and Elliot Gould vs. Edward Fox and Dirk Bogarde, Redford and Hackman vs. Olivier and Hopkins, stark seventies ADR vs. gorgeous diffused cinematography. The scale of this film is truly incredible and so strange to see a practical match for the limitless production values of modern war movie CGI. Boy, this is beginning to sound like I know what I’m talking about. Better comment on something trivial…
Lord Attenborough may have garnered a Best Director Oscar for Gandhi, but this 1977 film is the most entertaining film he ever directed. A talented actor himself, he brought together the greatest cast ever assembled for a seventies production and gave us a thrilling account of The Allies' most ambitious failure during September of 1944. Attenborough's film is epic in every way, from the spectacular set pieces, the incredible number of extras, and that cast of superstars. Connery, Caine, Bogarde, Caan, Fox, Gould, Hackman, O'Neal, Hopkins, and Robert Redford just on the allied side of things. By the time we added Schnell and Kruger on the German side and Laurence Olivier and Liv Ullman as Dutch civilians, this film had…
Attracted by the huge cast of known names, I found myself almost immediately irritated by the claim that until D-Day, no one was fighting the Nazis. It emphasizes how these films serve as much to erase the Soviets as they do to glorify imperialist war. There's also a moment in this where they refer to a mental hospital being bombed, and it's not clear who did the bombing. The horrors of the Nazis are ignored and we get a few too many moments of honorable behavior from them for my comfort.
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Stellen wir einmal einige Parallelen zwischen „Die Brücke von Arnheim“ und „Der längste Tag“ auf.
„Der längste Tag“
Cast:
Die wohl offensichtlichste Parallele nebst dem Zeitporträt des 2. Weltkrieges, ist der Cast, in der amerikanische wie britische und deutsche/österreichische Größen mit Namen wie:
-Henry Fonda
-Robert Mitchum
-John Wayne
-Gert Fröbe
-Curd Jürgens
-Richard Burton
-und mit Sean Connery einer direkten Überschneidung
mitspielen und je nach Rolle groß aufspielen. Dagegen spielt bei „Die Brücke von Arnheim“ Schauspielgrößen wie:
-James Caan
-Michael Caine
-Gene Hackman
-Anthony Hopkins
-Hardy Krüger
-Laurence Olivier
-Robert Redford
-Maximilian Schell
-sowie eben Sean Connery in einer deutlich größeren Rolle.
„Der längste Tag“
Handlung:
Kurz überriesen, handelt „Der längste Tag“ um…
can’t believe I went into this for robert redford, ryan o’neal, and michael caine and ended up having my heart stolen by elliott gould and his giant cigar that never left his mouth ♥️
there’s also something about robert redford calling ryan o’neal “sir” that was both surreal and sexy at the same time. the single 60 second scene they share together two hours into this film was more romantic than the entirety of LOVE STORY and you can quote me on that.
One of the finest casts ever assembled delivered one of the most tear and pride inducing movies about WWII. Sir Richard Attenborough and Joseph E. Levine's vision to tell the story behind the Allied Forces most audacious and ultimately disastrous attempt to end the war early is as thrilling as war movies come.
Short of only Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, who were both incidentally approached to star, this has legend after legend of the seventies acting elite.Redford, Hopkins,Connery,Caan,Olivier, Ullman,Gould,Caine, O'Neal,the list is endless. The most expensive movie ever made at the time, it showed in the scale and grandness of the production. Levine stated that financiers for the film demanded that one of Redford,Newman or McQueen must star in…
Comprehensive account of the infamous Operation Market Garden, the failed Allied attempt to capture three strategic bridges in the Netherlands, gain control of the Rhine, and break Germany's defense line.
Epic war movie where the sweeping scope and the all-star cast can't hide the fact that the script and direction are strictly by-the-numbers. There are far too many characters seeking our attention and at the end of the day we don't really connect with any of them. Every feeble attempt at their development is drowned in a hail of gunfire. That said, this isn't a bad film. The battle scenes are spectacular and the meticulous recreation of the events that took place in September 1944 is a boon for history…
"A Bridge Too Far" tries to capture,
All WW2 bridge invasion factors.
Hackman, Redford, and Cain,
One thing is plain,
It has almost every 70’s actor.
You see the cast list and you're like "how do they fit that many icons in one movie?" and then you see the runtime and you're like "oh that's how."
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 Happy 83rd Birthday to Elliott Gould + Happy Birthday to Richard Attenborough 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
Three hours may be too long a time to spend on World War II's Operation Market Garden - especially if, like me, you already know the story - but Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far has perhaps the greatest cast of the 1970s, outclassing even The Towering Inferno for megawatt star power. I also like the idea of Bridge as a companion piece to Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Attenborough's more satisfyingly risk-taking look back at World War I, especially since both films feature Dirk Bogarde as military men.
My favorite moments are in the little details: pompous Lieutenant Colonel Frost (Anthony Hopkins) being so…
Marked by stunning attention to detail, a truly massive scope, phenomenal effects, one gripping set-piece after the next, and last but certainly not least, arguably the greatest all-star cast in cinema history, A Bridge Too Far is easily one of the best World War II films of all time on account of its visceral depiction of war’s violence and misery, its ability to tell an immense story economically, and its remarkably objective perspective of world-changing events.
About halfway through this movie I realized that it wasn’t The Longest Day. That 1962 flick is another gigantic adaptation of a Cornelius Ryan WWII book, a film I had seen previously and much appreciated on a lazy Saturday afternoon several decades ago. I…
