A Bridge Too Far

Action, Drama, History, War

Laurence Olivier	Dr. Jan Spaander
Elliott Gould	Col. Robert Stout
Edward Fox	Lt. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks
Ryan O'Neal	Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Maximillian Schell	Lt. Gen. Wilhelm Bittrich
Liv Ullmann	Kate Ter Horst
Gene Hackman	Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
Sean Connery	Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart
Anthony Hopkins	Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Michael Caine	Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur
Dirk Bogarde	Lt. Gen. Frederick A.M. Browning
James Caan	SSgt. Eddie Dohun
Hardy Krüger	Maj. Gen. Ludwig

Director	Richard Attenborough
Producer	Joseph E. Levine; Richard P. Levine
Writer	William Goldman; Cornelius Ryan

In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. But a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and even worse weather led to disaster beyond the Allies darkest fears.