A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Directed by Richard Attenborough
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
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Films about British military flops are not a rarity, with A Bridge Too Far, Zulu and Gallipoli among the best, but Dunkirk likewise encapsulates the heroic aspect to defeat in both our real and myth-making cinematic history.
By making a big and bold tentpole war movie in the mold of The Longest Day or A Bridge Too Far, told about a battle or campaign and not a character-centered story using the battle as thrilling backdrop, Nolan left himself no escape hatch.
Julian Cook in “A Bridge Too Far” was a kind of Robert Redfordish character, so cast Robert Redford in the brief part, and let sheer star-power steam over the five-minute-and-done performance.
Criminally under-represented in the annals of movie history, the wartime evacuation of Dunkirk has been crying out for a classic film interpretation to rank alongside genre leaders The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far and Saving Private Ryan.
The director Sam Mendes, fresh from two Bond films, has learned from A Bridge Too Far and The Thin Red Line the value of sprinkling recognisable actors among the khaki greens of a war movie.
A far cry from such tame war movies as A Bridge Too Far and yes, in comparison, even Saving Private Ryan, this controversial film dramatizes a failed 1993 U. N. peacekeeping operation undertaken by U.S. forces in Somalia.