A Bridge Too Far

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Category: 13
All Genres: Action, Drama, History, War
Release Year: 1977
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 175
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Director: Richard Attenborough
Sound: 70 mm 6-Track, Stereo
Taglines:

Out of the sky comes the screen's most incredible spectacle of men and war!

Writing by: Cornelius Ryan - (book)
William Goldman - (screenplay)

Produced by: Joseph E. Levine - producer
Richard P. Levine - producer
John Palmer - associate producer
Michael Stanley-Evans - co-producer

Cast: Dirk Bogarde - Lt. Gen. Frederick A.M. Browning
James Caan - SSgt. Eddie Dohun
Michael Caine - Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur
Sean Connery - Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart
Edward Fox - Lt. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks
Elliott Gould - Col. Robert Stout
Gene Hackman - Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
Anthony Hopkins - Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Hardy Krüger - Maj. Gen. Ludwig (as Hardy Kruger)
Ryan O'Neal - Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Laurence Olivier - Dr. Jan Spaander

Music: John Addison
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Plot Outline: An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.
Plot: This WWII film follows the perspectives of American, Polish and British soldiers attempting to capture key bridges behind German lines in a complicated parachute and armoured assault.

Movie Quotes: Field Marshal Model: What can you see?
General Ludwig: Nothing. But they're going to try a river assault.
Field Marshal Model: It will fail.
General Ludwig: Of course. But what do we do if it doesn't?

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Christopher Walken's name is misspelled in the credits as "Christopher Wlaken".

Goofs: We know about 17 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When a damaged Allied cargo plane "crashes" behind some trees near Maj. Gen. Urquhart and his troops, the plane can be seen pulling up and flying away just behind the fireball marking its supposed impact point.

Trivia: There are 23 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Originally rated "R" by the MPAA for strong language, it was lowered to "PG" upon appeal.
There are 14 Oscar-winners associated with the movie, seven of them actors (though none earned their Academy Awards for this picture).
Steve McQueen and Audrey Hepburn were originally cast to play Major Julian Cook and Kate Ter Horst repectively. But they were dropped when Hepburn's asking salary price was too high, and McQueen only wanted to appear in starring roles, not all-star assembled projects.