"A Bridge Too Far", full movie

[Texas Star]

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I read the topic here about scenes in, "A Bridge Too Far", about the Allied airborne attack that failed so miserably in Sept., 1944.

There was some discussion about Sean Connery's pistol and some other stuff.

Looks like this link will get you the entire movie on YouTube, so you can see for yourself how well the film depicted the real events. My only gripe about an otherwise excellent movie with an all-star cast is that the planes that bombed German artillery in the woods were incorrect. I know they couldn't get real Typhoon or Tempest planes that were still airworthy, but they could have used Spitfires or Mustangs or something. How many B-25's still fly? Lancasters?

This is one of the better war movies of all time. Enjoy. It's my Christmas gift to the board.

OOPS: I just started watching and the framing cuts off the sub-titles where German or Dutch are spoken. May be better if viewed directly on YouTube? Oh, well: you can still tell what's happening and some here speak those languages.

 

[Kurusu]

The number of airworthy vintage warbirds has never been higher, in numbers and variety, than it is today since the 50s.

Fyi. There was only one display Typhoon survivor. And it only escaped the scrapper because it had been sent to the USA.

Spitfires and Mustangs would look as bad as the ones they used. I wont even comment on the B25s. I still can count up to two(engines).

 

[Texas Star]

The number of airworthy vintage warbirds has never been higher, in numbers and variety, than it is today since the 50s.

Fyi. There was only one display Typhoon survivor. And it only escaped the scrapper because it had been sent to the USA.

Spitfires and Mustangs would look as bad as the ones they used. I wont even comment on the B25s. I still can count up to two(engines).

Then enjoy the two-engined B-26's in the introductory B&W newsreel film. Medium bombers were probably even more logical than fighter-bombers. But P-47's and Typhoons seem to have done most of the heavy lifting for tactical air support.

 

[Kurusu]

Then enjoy the two-engined B-26's in the introductory B&W newsreel film. Medium bombers were probably even more logical than fighter-bombers. But P-47's and Typhoons seem to have done most of the heavy lifting for tactical air support.

The use of these fighter bombers was really in a ground atack role. The only attempt to use the B26 in that role ended up in disaster, and that was before D day, I think. From then on they were only used as medium height bombers, as shown in the footage, but that wasn't usefull in Market Garden. If they were A-26 Douglas (ironically classified as B-26 after 1948) the story would be different. But they only arrived to the European theater some 2 weeks before market garden.

Edit. You can't use a broadsword when you need a rapier. They were trying to free the Dutch in the process, not bomb them to smithereens.

 

[loknload]

A Bridge Too Far is one of my all time favorite war movies!
It’s a classic!
Very well written and very well acted!

 

[Texas Star]

The use of these fighter bombers was really in a ground atack role. The only attempt to use the B26 in that role ended up in disaster, and that was before D day, I think. From then on they were only used as medium height bombers, as shown in the footage, but that wasn't usefull in Market Garden. If they were A-26 Douglas (ironically classified as B-26 after 1948) the story would be different. But they only arrived to the European theater some 2 weeks before market garden.

Edit. You can't use a broadsword when you need a rapier. They were trying to free the Dutch in the process, not bomb them to smithereens.

I understand that. But one could bomb specific areas where the Germans were and the Dutch weren't. As they did!

 

[RGVshooter]

I have this movie on DVD, excellent film. One of my favorite scenes is this interesting use of artillery support to provide covering fire for a armored division moving across open terrain. I don't recall a war movie quite showing this technique.

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[Bat Guano]

Excellent movie. I've also read Urquhart's and Frost's books.

Too many moving parts...

 

[Texas Star]

I have this movie on DVD, excellent film. One of my favorite scenes is this interesting use of artillery support to provide covering fire for a armored division moving across open terrain. I don't recall a war movie quite showing this technique.

A Bridge Too Far - Artillery support - YouTube

Were those guns the famous 25-pounders?

 

[Texas Star]

Excellent movie. I've also read Urquhart's and Frost's books.

Too many moving parts...

What are the book titles? Are they easy to find Online, do you think? Do they have photos?

 

[jtcarm]

A Bridge Too Far is one of my all time favorite war movies!

It’s a classic!

Very well written and very well acted!

Too aggravating and depressing for me.

The waste of so many lives on sheer arrogance & incompetence.

 

[hoc9sw]

Ryan is a very important figure for those of us fighting advanced and terminal prostate cancer. This was his last book, and he spent much, if not most of his remaining energy at the end on the research and manuscript.

A clip from Wikipedia that ties the two:

This work was followed by A Bridge Too Far (1974), which tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the ill-fated assault by allied airborne forces on the Netherlands culminating in the Battle of Arnhem. This work was also made into a major 1977 film of the same name.

Ryan was awarded the French Legion of Honour, and an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Ohio University, where the Cornelius Ryan Collection is housed (Alden Library). He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1970, and struggled to finish A Bridge Too Far during his illness. He died in Manhattan,[1] while on tour promoting the book, A Bridge Too Far, only two months after publication.

Four years after his death, Ryan's struggle with prostate cancer was detailed in A Private Battle, written by his wife, from notes he had secretly left behind for that purpose. He is buried in the Ridgebury Cemetery in northern Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA.

 

[RGVshooter]

Were those guns the famous 25-pounders?

Yes! I believe they were.....

 

[Bat Guano]

What are the book titles? Are they easy to find Online, do you think? Do they have photos?

Just do a search for "Arnhem", Amazon.

 

[GaryS]

I understand that. But one could bomb specific areas where the Germans were and the Dutch weren't. As they did!

A great movie, which was pretty true to the actual events. The title has become a commonly used phrase, even when not talking about the war or this specific battle.

I'm currently reading, "The Second World Wars", by Victor Davis Hanson. It's not a retelling of any battles or campaigns, but a look at the underlying structures of the wars and in a large part why the Axis nations were doomed to lose from even before the start of hostilities.

One thing that he notes is that more civilians died during the war military personnel. Some of that was by accident, some of collateral damaged, but much of it was by design. That's especially true of the Germans, Japanese, and Russians.

 

[gamboolman]

My wifes father was in the 101st and was there.
He said the Brits got slaughtered and saw lots of there bodies floating down the river.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

A good movie, in reality a very risky plan badly executed, but closer to success than it might have been. Let's take our tea.

 

[the ringo kid]

A Bridge Too Far 1977 1080p World War II Sean Connery, Robert Redford HD - YouTube

I read the topic here about scenes in, "A Bridge Too Far", about the Allied airborne attack that failed so miserably in Sept., 1944.

There was some discussion about Sean Connery's pistol and some other stuff.

Looks like this link will get you the entire movie on YouTube, so you can see for yourself how well the film depicted the real events. My only gripe about an otherwise excellent movie with an all-star cast is that the planes that bombed German artillery in the woods were incorrect. I know they couldn't get real Typhoon or Tempest planes that were still airworthy, but they could have used Spitfires or Mustangs or something. How many B-25's still fly? Lancasters?

This is one of the better war movies of all time. Enjoy. It's my Christmas gift to the board.

OOPS: I just started watching and the framing cuts off the sub-titles where German or Dutch are spoken. May be better if viewed directly on YouTube? Oh, well: you can still tell what's happening and some here speak those languages.

I would love to see this in the theater. I missed it at the time.

 

[the ringo kid]

I have this movie on DVD, excellent film. One of my favorite scenes is this interesting use of artillery support to provide covering fire for a armored division moving across open terrain. I don't recall a war movie quite showing this technique.

A Bridge Too Far - Artillery support - YouTube

Years ago, I managed to pick up a number of original film cells of those attack scenes. I don't know how to make prints of them or id gladly do so.

 

[Texas Star]

Ringo-

I'm pretty sure the DVD is still available. Check Amazon, etc.

I did see the film in the theater. I was married then and my wife just tolerated it. I think she liked Connery. Most women did.

We went to, "Jaws" in 1975 and she insisted on leaving halfway through the movie. I didn't get to see it until after my divorce.

Thankfully, I've never dated another woman so squeamish. Some have covered their eyes in places, but none wanted to leave before the movie was over.