1977 · drama · war · action
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Directed by Richard Attenborough2h 55m1977
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Our read: A Bridge Too Far (1977) (1977) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · war · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / war, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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