Improves with Age

Rating: Null/10 (24 August 2003)

This film improves with age. A war film which makes a good attempt to be accurate. Some interesting facts General Browning was the husband of writer Daphne Du Maurier (Jamaica Inn). Walter Kronkite was a young US army reporter following the battle. Market Garden was plagued by "bad luck" apart from any bad-planning; the British radios which didn't work, the weather, the unexpected Panzer regiments. The greatest conundrum was why the British tanks stopped for the night when Arnhem was in sight (commanded in part by a future Conservative Minister Lord Carrington (Falklands)). The failure of the battle was catastrophe for the Dutch people who would starve that winter, all the people in concentration camps, etc ....