Rating: PG
Genre: War
Release Date: 10/20/1998
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 2/5.1
Run Time: 176 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: MGM

It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Germany. Paratroops led by British major general Robert Urquhart (Sean Connery) and American brigadier general James Gavin (Ryan O'Neal) will seize a thin road and five bridges through Holland into Germany, with paratroops led by Lieutenant Col. John Frost (Sir Anthony Hopkins) holding the most critical bridge at a small town called Arnhem. Over this road shall pass combined forces led by British Lieutenant Gen. Brian Horrocks (Edward Fox) and British Lieutenant Col. Joe Vandeleur (Michael Caine). The plan requires precise timing, so much so that one planner tells Lieutenant Gen. Frederick Browning (Dirk Bogarde), "Sir, I think we may be going a bridge too far." The plan also has one critical flaw: Instead of a smattering of German soldiers, the area around Arnhem is loaded with crack SS troops. Disaster ensues. Based on a book by historian Cornelius Ryan, A Bridge Too Far is reminiscent of another movie based on a Ryan book, The Longest Day. Like that movie, it is loaded with more than 15 international stars, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Hardy Krueger, Gene Hackman, Maximilian Schell, and Liv Ullman.

~ Nick Sambides, Jr., All Movie Guide

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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
Liv Ullmann - Kate Ter Horst
Arthur Hill - Tough Colonel
Wolfgang Preiss - Field Marshal von Rundstedt
Siem Vroom - Underground Leader
Mary Smithuysen - Old Dutch Woman
Nicholas Campbell - Capt. Glass
Christopher Good - Maj. Carlyle
Keith Drinkel - Lt. Cornish
Peter Faber - Capt. Harry Bestebreurtje

Production:
Richard Attenborough - Director
Joseph E. Levine Richard P. Levine - Producer
Michael Stanley-Evans - Co Producer
John Addison - Composer
Antony Gibbs - Editor
William Goldman - Screen Writer
Peter Howitt - Set Designer
Alan Tomkins - Art Director
Roy Stannard - Art Director
Stuart Craig - Art Director
John Palmer - Associate Producer
Cornelius Ryan - Book Author
Peter MacDonald - Camera Operator
Miriam Brickman - Casting
Geoffrey Unsworth - Cinematographer
Harry Waxman - Cinematographer
Anthony Mendleson - Costume Designer
David Tomblin - First Assistant Director
Roy Button - First Assistant Director
Steve Lanning - First Assistant Director
Terence Marsh - Production Designer
Terence A. Clegg - Production Manager
Simon Kaye - Sound/Sound Designer
John Richardson - Special Effects
Alf Joint - Stunts Coordinator
Tom Smith - Makeup

Sands of Iwo Jima
    John Wayne / NR / 1949
The Longest Day [Blu-ray]
    John Wayne / G / 1962
Enemy at the Gates
    Joseph Fiennes / R / 2001
Battleground
    Van Johnson / NR / 1949
Battle of the Bulge [Blu-ray]
    Henry Fonda / NR / 1965
Midway [WS]
    Charlton Heston / PG / 1976
Hell is for Heroes
    Steve McQueen / NR / 1962
The Bridge at Remagen
    George Segal / PG / 1969

1977 British Academy of Film and Television