A Bridge Too Far

7.2

United States Of America

Drama History War

175 min

1977

Fred Williams Garrick Hagon Arthur Hill Denholm Elliott Adrienne Kleiweg Michael Graham Cox Ben Howard Hilary Minster Ben Cross John Judd Brian Gwaspari Hans Croiset Keith Drinkel Henny Alma Tom van Beek Tim Beekman Sean Mathias Lex van Delden Barry McCarthy Simon Chandler Joop Doderer Bob de Lange Richard Attenborough Patrick Dickson Roy Boyd Stephen Churchett Sebastian Abineri Edward Kalinski Alun Armstrong John Stride George Innes Dick Rienstra Patrick Ryecart John Ratzenberger John Morton Stanley Lebor John Salthouse Laurence Olivier Wolfgang Preiss Erik van 't Wout Marlies van Alcmaer Siem Vroom Liv Ullmann Maximilian Schell Robert Redford Ryan O'Neal Hans von Borsody Hardy Krüger Gene Hackman Anthony Hopkins Elliott Gould Edward Fox Sean Connery Michael Caine James Caan Stephen Moore Christopher Good Colin Farrell Erik Chitty Harry Ditson Gerald Sim Nicholas Campbell Paul Copley Michael Byrne Dirk Bogarde Peter Settelen Donald Douglas Donald Pickering Jeremy Kemp Frank Grimes Hartmut Becker Peter Faber Walter Kohut

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.