I'm a big fan of war movies and I already have a nice collection on DVD. Therefore I reward this movie with a 9/10. Eleven Dakotas were procured. [22], Some reviewers suggested that the film contains historical inaccuracies and needs to be viewed as a ‘Hollywood’ interpretation of events. XXX Corps' progress to relieve them is slowed by German resistance, the narrowness of the highway and the need to construct a Bailey bridge to replace the one destroyed at Son. | Yes No. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Gronoviusstraat, Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands, Underground Leader's Wife From "Veronica Mars" to Rebecca take a look back at the career of Armie Hammer on and off the screen. Three Danish Air Force K-685, K-687, and K-688, and four Finnish Air Force C-47s, DO-4, DO-7, DO-10 and DO-12, were loaned for the duration of the parachute filming. Many of the Jeeps either do not arrive by their gliders at all or are shot up in an ambush. After days of house-to-house fighting, pitted against crack SS infantry and panzers, the outgunned troops are captured or forced to withdraw to Oosterbeek. Further British paratroopers arrived on 18 September but by now the Germans were responding in force. These were flown by members of the Gilze Rijen Aero Club, which also provided an Auster III, PH-NGK, which depicted an Auster V, RT607, in wartime camouflage. Directed by Richard Attenborough. Technical Specs, Bemmel, Lingewaard, Gelderland, Netherlands, Moor Park Golf Club, Moor Park, Anson Walk, Batchworth Heath, Hertfordshire, England, UK, Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK, J.F. Ten Horsa glider replicas were built, but a windstorm damaged almost all of them. Company Credits Other action footage is routine. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Official Sites The true story of Operation Market Garden, the Allies attempt, in September 1944, to hasten the end of World War II by driving through Belgium and Holland into Germany. Passing through the front yard, now converted to a graveyard for fallen troops, she and her children trek along the high riverbank, with her father, an elderly doctor, pulling a few salvaged possessions in a cart, while wounded British troops quietly sing Abide with Me as they wait to be taken prisoner. Was this review helpful to you? There even is a difference between the English of the Americans and the British. "Stars and Heroes" – some of the movie's actors and the men they play tell Goldman their thoughts on the film and the battle. Looking for some great streaming picks? Although reconnaissance photos show German tanks at Arnhem, General Browning dismisses them and also ignores reports from the Dutch underground. With Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier. Although British officers note that the portable radios are not likely to work for the long distance from the drop zone to the Arnhem Bridge, they choose not to convey their concerns up a chain of command intent on silencing all doubt. (as Marlies Van Alcmaer), Underground Leader's Son Another good example is the fact that they didn't try to make all the Germans look like brainless killers, monsters without any human feelings. The true story of Operation Market Garden, the Allies attempt, in September 1944, to hasten the end of World War II by driving through Belgium and Holland into Germany. Showing all 13 items Jump to: Filming Locations (12) Filming Dates (1) Filming Locations. There, soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division perform a dangerous daylight river crossing in flimsy canvas-and-wood assault boats and the Nijmegen bridge is captured, but XXX Corps has to wait several hours for infantry to secure the town. [24], Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, describing it as, "such an exercise in wretched excess, such a mindless series of routine scenes, such a boringly violent indulgence in all the blood and guts and moans they could find, that by the end we're prepared to speculate that maybe Levine went two or even three bridges too far. Finally, Sosabowski's troops, held up by fog in England, enter the battle too late and are unable to reinforce the British. escaping in 1941 to UK he studied at the Royal Military Academy, and later in Edinburgh he was trained as an OSS agent and assigned to operations behind in occupied Holland. (1977). | The uniforms, the weapons, the landscapes, the cities..., everything really gives you the feeling the director wanted to give an accurate vision on what happened during operation Market Garden. A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II. A German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II. Why didn't the allies listen to the Dutch resistance's warnings of German tanks at Arnhem? 1st British Airborne Division, Urquhart's batman, Senior Medical Officer, Headquarters RAMC, 1st British Airborne Division, at the Main Dressing Station in the Schoonoord Hotel of the Oosterbeek Perimeter, CG, 101st Airborne Division, US Army at the Son bridge and later St-Oedenrode, Principal General Staff Officer (Chief of Staff), Headquarters, 1st Airborne Division, British Army, Divisional HQ at the Hartenstein Hotel, Senior Medical Officer, 1st Airborne Corps, R.A.M.C., British Army, British Grenadier Guards Commander who argues with Major Cook after 82nd capture Nijmegen Bridge, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, 1st Parachute Brigade, 1st British Airborne Division, British XXX Corps staff officer at General Browning's HQ, Grenadier Guards Colonel (based on Lt. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. The key to the operation was the bridges, as if the Germans held or blew them, the paratroopers could not be relieved. They would be reinforced, in due course and in turn, by the British XXX Corps, land-based and driving up from the British lines in the south. [18], Shooting of the American-led assault on the Bridge at Nijmegen was dubbed the "Million-Dollar Hour".