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Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2002)

I've seen this film more than 50 times and it ranks as my all-time favorite war movie. Another viewer wanted to know if the scene in which Sergeant Dohun really pulled a pistol on a doctor who had refused to look at his apparently dead captain was real or just "Hollywood." The answer is easily obtainable if one reads Cornelius Ryan's epic account of the battle, from which the movie derives its title. Not only was that scene true, but eh characters portrayed by James Caan, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal and Robert Redford all served as consultants to the making of ABTF.