A BRIDGE TOO FAR - DVD

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• Release Year: 1977
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Plot: It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Germany. Paratroops led by British major general Robert Urquhart (Sean Connery) and American brigadier general James Gavin (Ryan O'Neal) will seize a thin road and five bridges through Holland into Germany, with paratroops led by Lieutenant Col. John Frost (Sir Anthony Hopkins) holding the most critical bridge at a small town called Arnhem. Over this road shall pass combined forces led by British Lieutenant Gen. Brian Horrocks (Edward Fox) and British Lieutenant Col. Joe Vandeleur (Michael Caine). The plan requires precise timing, so much so that one planner tells Lieutenant Gen. Frederick Browning (Dirk Bogarde), 'Sir, I think we may be going a bridge too far.' The plan also has one critical flaw: Instead of a smattering of German soldiers, the area around Arnhem is loaded with crack SS troops. Disaster ensues.
• Cast: Siem Vroom; Marlies van Alcmaer; Erik van 't Wout; Wolfgang Preiss; Hans von Borsody; Josephine Peeper; Dirk Bogarde; Paul Maxwell; Sean Connery; Ryan O'Neal; Gene Hackman; Walter Kohut; Peter Faber; Hartmut Becker; Frank Grimes; Jeremy Kemp; Donald Pickering; Donald Douglas; Peter Settelen; Stephen Moore; Edward Fox; Michael Caine; Michael Byrne; Anthony Hopkins; Paul Copley; Nicholas Campbell; James Caan; Gerald Sim; Harry Ditson; Erik Chitty; Brian Hawksley; Colin Farrell; Christopher Good; Norman Gregory; Alun Armstrong; Anthony Milner; Barry McCarthy; Lex van Delden; Maximilian Schell; Michael Wolf; Hardy Krüger; Sean Mathias; Tim Beekman; Edward Seckerson; Liv Ullmann; Tom van Beek; Bertus Botterman; Henny Alma; Elliott Gould; Ray Jewers; Geoffrey Hinsliff; Keith Drinkel; Mary Smithuysen; Hans Croiset; Steve McQueen; John Peel; John Judd; Ben Cross; Hilary Minster; David English; Ben Howard; Michael Graham Cox; Johan te Slaa; Georgette Reyevski; Pieter Groenier; Adrienne Kleiweg; Denholm Elliott; Peter Gordon; Arthur Hill; Garrick Hagon; Brian Gwaspari; Stephen Rayment; Timothy Morand; James Wardroper; Neil Kennedy; John Salthouse; Jonathan Hackett; Stanley Lebor; Jack Galloway; Milton Cadman; David Auker; Laurence Olivier; Richard Kane; Toby Salaman; Michael Bangerter; Philip Raymond; Myles Reithermann; Robert Redford; Anthony Pullen Shaw; John Morton; John Ratzenberger; Patrick Ryecart; Dick Rienstra; Ian Liston; Paul Rattee; Mark Sheridan; George Innes; John Stride; Niall Padden; Michael Graves; Simon Chandler; Edward Kalinski; Shaun Curry; Sebastian Abineri; Chris Williams; Andrew Branch; Anthony Garner; Feliks Arons; Stuart Blake; Roy Boyd; Stephen Churchett; Jon Croft; Patrick Dickson; Adrian Gibbs; Jason Gregory; Stewart Guidotti; Patrick Hannaway; Brian Haughton; Anthony Howden; Frank Jarvis; David Killick; Dan Long; Gerald Martin; Edward McDermott; Tony McHale; Jack McKenzie; Francis Mughan; Richard Ommanney; Peter Quince; Robin Scobey; Farrell Sheridan; James Snell; Michael Stock; David Stockton; Paul Vaughan-Teague; Jason White; Mark York; Richard Attenborough; Robin Blair-Crawford; Omar N. Bradley; John Careless; Winston Churchill; Charles de Gaulle; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Gerard Franken; Adolf Hitler; Alfred Jodl; Trafford Leigh-Mallory; Bernard L. Montgomery; George S. Patton; Bertram Ramsay; Anthony Robb; Erwin Rommel; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Walter Bedell Smith; Arthur Tedder; Robert Wisepart; Cornelius Ryan; William Goldman
• Director: Richard Attenborough
• Runtime: 2:56
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie