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A Bridge Too Far is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Attenborough released in USA on 15 june 1977 with Dirk Bogarde
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
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Add to a movie listA Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, adapted by William Goldman. It was produced by Joseph E. Levine and Richard P. Levine and directed by Richard Attenborough.
The film tells the story of the failure of Operation Market Garden during World War II, the Allied attempt to break through German lines and seize several bridges in the occupied Netherlands, including one at Arnhem, with the main objective of outflanking German defences in order to end the war by Christmas of 1944.
The name for the film comes from an unconfirmed comment attributed to British Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army, who told Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the operation's architect, before the operation: "I think we may be going a bridge too far."
The ensemble cast includes Dirk Bogarde, Ryan O'Neal, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann. The music was scored by John Addison, who had served in the British XXX Corps during Market Garden.
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The film begins with a montage of archival film footage narrated by a Dutch woman, Kate ter Horst, describing the state of affairs in September 1944. The Allied advance is being slowed by overextended supply lines.Actors
Dirk Bogarde
(Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning)
James Caan
(SSgt. Eddie Dohun)
Michael Caine
(Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur)
Sean Connery
(Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart)
Michael Byrne
(Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur)
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