A Bridge Too Far PG
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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: October 20, 1998
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde | |
| Performer: | James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Laurence Olivier & Denholm Elliott | |
| Directed by | Richard Attenborough | |
| Edited by | Antony Gibbs | |
| Screenwriting by | William Goldman | |
| Composition by | John Addison | |
| Director of Photography: | Geoffrey Unsworth |
Entertainment Reviews:
63%
86%
An overworked, very old and very tired warhorse. Glossy, ponderous, predictable.
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Time Out
The insistence to not have any loose ends slows down the story and drags it in too many different directions. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Futility and frustration are the overriding emotional elements in A Bridge Too Far, Joseph E. Levine's sprawling Second World War production.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
Impressive enough.
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Radio Times
Rating: D --
A very long slog.
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Guardian
Rating: 2/4 --
The movie's big and expensive and filled with stars, but it's not an epic. It's the longest B-grade war movie ever made.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Attenborough's direction is impeccable.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
Richard Attenborough's ambitious, all-star adaptation (by William Goldman) of Cornelius Ryan's book, gives an account of the Battle of Arnhem. In 1944, the Allied powers attempt to expedite the end of the war with a costly operation to capture six bridges connecting Holland to Germany ended in Allied defeat. A multitude of notables star in Attenborough's epic.
Plot Synopsis:
Director Richard Attenborough's ambitious, all-star, adaptation of Cornelius Ryan's book, dealing with the true account of the Battle of Arnhem. In 1944, the Allied powers attempted to expedite the end of the war by planning an ambitious and costly operation (the capturing of six bridges connecting Holland to Germany) that ended up getting bungled by both the Allied and Axis powers.
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Production Notes:
- Film was originally rated R by the MPAA, but won a PG on appeal.
- Color by Technicolor, deluxe prints. Shot in Panavision.
- Budget estimate $24 million.
- Additional cast: Peter Faber, Frank Grimes, and Christopher Good.
- Additional credits: Richard Bamber (2nd unit production manager), Ronnie Sloan (chief hairdresser), John Hilling (wardrobe master), Margaret Levin (wardrobe mistress), Connie Willis (continuity), Steve Lanning, Peter Waller, and Geoffrey Ryan (assistant directors), Dave Waterman and John Partington-Smith (parachute photography), and Joe Caroff (titles).
- Rated BBFC A by the British Board of Film Censors.
- DVD Special Features: 8-page Book Featuring Trivia, Production Notes and a Look Behind the Scenes, Theatrical Trailer
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 809
- UPC: 027616675729
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