A Bridge Too Far

[michaelwhittmann]

I was wondering what everyone thought of this one.

IMHO wonderful. Love the scene where the Irish Guards
begin their advance.

If it's been discussed before I got here, can someone send me
the link?

[Kaczor]

Great movie with a fantastic cast. The scale is still impressive to this day.

[jarndice]

Blaming Montgomery was a mistake in my opinion when the whole sorry saga was down to General "Boy" Browning and the failure to big up the US Paras and their leadership was a disappointment.
As an "Ex" it has never been an easy watch indeed the best description I can give it could be a "Curates Egg" of a movie.

[Son of a gun-ner]

My favourite scene
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And here's the whole film.
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[michaelwhittmann]

Blaming Montgomery was a mistake in my opinion when the whole sorry saga was down to General "Boy" Browning and the failure to big up the US Paras and their leadership was a disappointment.
As an "Ex" it has never been an easy watch indeed the best description I can give it could be a "Curates Egg" of a movie.

Montie wanted to get to Berlin before Patton.
Pride, jealousy, hubris, "need to take credit" etc.

Don't blame him; Patton would have done the
same thing.

[Kaczor]

My favorite behind the scenes fact is the mouckup Shermans built on car chassis. They can be spotted in several scenes.

You can see one of them in this amateur video.

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[Ecam]

Never saw that video before Kaczor. I knew there were two (I thought) on wheels but the video said they built five!

[sassgrunt]

That was very cool! As many times as I've seen the movie, I had no idea about the steel-and-plastic Sherman bodies sitting atop a Land Rover. I remember that when the movie first came out, there was an uproar from military vehicle collectors about the Kubelwagen getting crushed, (until the movie company said that it was a fiberglass replica). Thank you for sharing it.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

A sidelight: my father, a veteran of the South Pacific, '42 to '46 (even after the war), went with a friend and me to see the movie when it first came out. After the movie, my father commented: "A Bridge Too Far?" Nah, "A Movie Too Long."

[Kaczor]

The movie is great. The only drawback for me is Gene Hackman's terrible Polish accent.