An Excellent War Movie

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2007)

Until 1944, the war was still going Hitler's way but then came the D - Day landings and everything changed and end of the war was in sight. The question now was, "How quickly can this be brought to an end?" After the liberation of Paris, the Allied movement in Europe slowed down and this began to give Hitler and his troops a bit of time to move back and put up a fight such as "Battle of the Bulge." It was at this time that Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery came up with the idea of capturing bridges - it was all a question of bridges - over the river Rhine in Holland. During the planning stages of this, the information that was coming in from the Dutch underground that several German Panzer Divisions had moved back into the area, was ignored. At the same time dropping of the Allied troops in and around Arnhem area, where most of the Panzers had moved back to, was a going "A Bridge Too Far." The movie directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, has a multi star cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Maxmillan Schell, Hardy Krugger, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, James Caan, Edward Fox and Gene Hackman. Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan and the real event itself, the movie depicts reality of war.
"A Bridge Too Far" has been considered to be a military failure by many.
As a matter of interest, Sir Richard Attenborough directed this movie when he was planning to direct his biggest movie, "GANDHI."