A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far - 1977 | 176 mins | War, Drama | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Richard Attenborough.
Producer: Joseph E. Levine and Richard P. Levine.
Script: William Goldman. (from the book by Cornelius Ryan)
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth.
Art Direction: Stuart Craig, Roy Stannard and Alan Tomkins.
Editing: Antony Gibbs.
Production Design: Terence Marsh.
Costume Design: Anthony Mendleson.
Makeup Department: Ronnie Cogan, Ernest Gasser, Nick Maley and Tom Smith.
Sound Department: Peter Horrocks, Simon Kaye and Les Wiggins.
Special Effects: John Richardson.
Music: John Addison.

The Cast

Dirk Bogarde - Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning
James Caan - Sgt. Eddie Dohun
Michael Caine - Lt. Col. Joe Vandeleur
Sean Connery - Maj. Gen. Robert Urquhart
Edward Fox - Lt. Gen. Brian Horrocks
Elliott Gould - Col. Bobby Stout
Gene Hackman - Maj. Gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski
Anthony Hopkins - Lt. Col. John Frost
Hardy Kruger - Gen. Ludwig
Laurence Olivier - Dr. Spaander
Ryan O'Neal - Brig. Gen. James Gavin
Robert Redford - Maj. Julian Cook
Maximilian Schell - Lt. Gen. Wilhelm Bittrich

Plot Synopsis

Richard Attenborough's epic all-star re-creation of the Arnhem debacle: Field Marshal Montgomery and General Eisenhower’s plan to parachute 35,000 Allied troops into the Netherlands and take six bridges that would have shortened the war considerably. Operation Market Garden was the codename of this allied operation towards the end of the W.W.II that all went horribly wrong, bad weather conditions and the troops running into a Panzer division resting in Arnhem that wasn't supposed to be there. The battle scenes are highly effective and everyone is on parade for this one: Dirk Bogarde, the cool c-in-c; Edward Fox, the larger-than-life Horrocks; Gene Hackman a heroic Pole; Anthony Hopkins stoically surrounded; plus Connery, Caine, Redford, Olivier and all.