A BRIDGE TOO FAR Clip - "River" (1977) Robert Redford - WWII Movie 

Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, James Caan, Elliot Gould, Ryan ONeil, Laurence f'ing Olivier... that is one hell of a cast.

A time when movies were actually shot and filmed on location ,real equipment, no CGI nonsense, such a great movie , and one hell of a cast too

My Dad took me to see this movie in the theater back in 1977. This was one of the most memorable scenes. He passed 6 years ago and I have wonderful memories of this shared experience.

One of my favorite movies of all time. The cast is ridiculous.

A lot of people said this movie was Hollywood & inaccurate. My next door neighbour was in Arnhem & watched it, said the movie captured how it all unfolded beautifully. Brought the guy a lot of memories back. My own grandfather was on the left flank of 30 corps advance & said pretty much the same thing. They certainly were a different breed.

Captain Delbert Kuehl, the protestant captain of the 405th PIR, who crossed with the first wave (2:29), was a boyhood (and lifelong) friend of my father. He made 2 jumps into combat, Sicily and Market Garden, and went across the beach at Anzio, always with the first wave. I was in awe of him. In 2010, while on a business trip to Dusseldorf, I spent a Sunday afternoon walking the Nijmegen bridges and the landing area on the north shore of the Waal River. (The jumping off point on the south shore is an industrial area I couldn't get to.) I was there in the Fall, close to the time of year of the actual crossing in September 1944. There was about 600 yards of flat, flat grassy field between the north shore and the dike. The movie suggests some terrain near the river behind which the Germans fired. I saw no such terrain features until the dike. So after they paddled across the river, they had to run 400-600 yards with no cover at all to get to the dike. Once they got to the dike, the foxes were loose in the hen house.

I remember getting a DVD player from my dad for Christmas of 97. And this movie was the first one he got me to go with it. For a 12 year old kid I was super happy to get this movie and watch it in DVD format.

4:22... When you hear the abrupt death scream of two kids and then see the young corpses of low ranking soldiers laying on the path carrying munitions you can't help but appreciate the subtlety of such a sensational movie.

The practical effects and choreography of this movie blow me away. War movies are rarely this ambitious now. The only thing that sticks out are the historical inaccuracies, which I understand for the sake of the narrative. For example, the 504th didn't make it to the road bridge right after crossing the Waal. The real story is even more incredible. After landing they were forced to cross several hundred yards of open field under fire from Germans positions on a 50-foot dike, then after a no-quarters fight at close range on the banks of the dike they split into groups with some paratroopers heading to Fort Hof van Holland (a 19th century fortress surrounded by moats) to disable German flak batteries, and the other to the railroad bridge where they captured MG-42s and turned them against SS troops retreating north across the bridge from the town of Nijmegen. 267 German bodies were counted on the rail bridge alone. It wasn't until late afternoon that a small group of paras reached the road bridge to the east. They engaged with Germans firing from the girders, but were too few in number to take the whole bridge. It was later that evening when the tanks of the Irish Guards shot their way across and linked up with the small group of paratroopers.

My father fought with 6 Div in Normandy and volunteered for Market Garden with 1 Div as his original unit was 156 Bn. He broke a leg on a training jump days before Market Garden. I can still see him walking through the cemetery in Arnhem. He’d often pause in front of a headstone before moving on to the next.

This WW2 film on true events is the best I’ve ever watched and still is to this day. No modern take will ever do better FACT!!

In my opinion this is one of the best war movies ever produced.

I couldn't imagine going through that nightmare river crossing just to land and have to storm the bridge. One of the 82nd's finest moments.

I saw this in the theater when I was 7 with my Grandfather who was there with the 82nd.

RIP Hardy Kruger

Ich bin am Niederrhein unmittelbar an der niederländischen Grenze zu Nimwegen aufgewachsen, und habe die Originalfilmaufnahmen 1976 der Luftlandeaktion der Alliierten in den Rheinniederungen miterlebt... Meine Mutter erlebte diese Szenen 1944 real, und bestätigte diese Brutalität des Krieges.

That movie is almost 50 years old but the effects are still good and it has nothing lost of its thrill.

Redford got paid far more than anyone else in that film for his brief appearance. I know it pissed off a lot of the other stars

I respect all that's been said. I only came to get a james caan clip for my tribute, and this movie was a part of his movie career. From what i witnessed in the clip, and the cast, it looks like it is more then likely a great movie. I have never read the book either. But i will try to watch this beginning to end at some point in my life. thanks peeps.

When I saw it in the theater, about half way thru Redford's Hail Mary! Full of Grace!, the whole boat started saying it!! About the time they got to shore, all the boats near him were also saying it!!!

Elite troops, superbly lead with the benefit of the M1 Garand and incredible bravery.

My great grandfather was a paratrooper in WWII. He was with the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment in North Africa and later the 3rd battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 82nd Airborne in Sicily. He was then sent back to England to prepare for Operation Overlord when he was transferred to the 101st Airborne and jumped into Normandy, and later jumped into Holland. He also participated in the Battle of the Bulge and Western Germany. He had made either 4 or 5 combat jumps during the war. Had he not been sent to Normandy right after Sicily, he probably would’ve participated in the Waal River Crossing. He survived and passed away in 2006. Technician 4th Grade John J. Lower 1919-2006 I’d say The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and The Devil’s Brigade are the best of their time. There are more, but I can’t think of all of them off the top of my head.

Fantastic movie! The cinematography is brilliant and the only movie I know made about Operation Market Garden.

After growing up seeing these war movies, one of the first things I noticed upon getting books is how much the Germans wore camouflage in reality. Later in the war you rarely saw the red helmet decal with the swasi. They were even given orders to paint over it, I believe.

You missed the best line, imho: "What did you expect, Destroyers?" what a brave river crossing. 🙂

Watched all sorts of "gung-ho" movie clips, from war movies made throughout the last 80-odd years, from John Wayne fighting off all sorts of foes in the jungles of the Pacific and Vietnam. Must say Robert Redford's scene "Hail Mary, Full Of Grace", from what I have heard talking to Vets of the last 80 years, comes closest to what soldiers are actually saying going into combat

Redford playing mjr Julian Cook of 504 PIR, was very convincing. - Cobb asaide ! - Cover! Excellent.

My favorite WW2 movie.

Who remembers the game in the PlayStation 2 I played it so many times that I would play it in the hard mode

Great movie.. I saw this movie and Star Wars in Vegas on vacation in 1977 because 11 yr old cannot gamble. My four brothers still talk about this great day for real manly movies.

R.I.P Sean Connery✝️🕊️☮️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Filmed on location at the Waal River at Nijmegen. Doesn't get much better than that.

In the game Close Combat 2: A Bridge too Far, this map is brutal and I believe is the do or die for both sides.

It is interesting to note is that the rifle fired by the German at 4:06 is a Gewehr 98 - as evidenced by its straight bolt handle and Lange-Visier rear sight - which the Germans already replaced in 1935 with the Karabiner 98k. Another thing to note is that the rifles at 3:05 and 3:40 appear to be Gewehr 98 rifles shortened to look like a Karabiner 98k, as the Lange-Visier rear sight is still present. Source: IMFDB

I just saw a young Redford playing a small town gunslinger trying to make a name for himself in a black and white series with Henry Fonda playing a Marshal.

82nd A/B Div. CO Brigadier General Jim Gavin "I'm sending two companies of men across the river by boat. I need a man with very special qualities to lead" / Major Julian Cook: "Go on, sir" / Gavin: "He's gotta be tough enough to do it and he's gotta be experienced enough to do it, and one more thing - he's gotta be dumb enough to do it."

RW:Hail Mary full of Grace,was all i heard from this scene.

Major Cook saved the day!

The British generals observing said that this river assault by the yanks was the most courageous act they had ever witnessed

Just like longest day movie classic movie, it has to be watched only in theaters to get the feeling

my favourite movie of all time

Super star cast super movie very well produced war movie in the 70s I think. Pity it's not screened again in theaters in india

It's not often you see Robert Redford and Gene Hackman be in war movies. However there were few actors who actually were in WW 2. RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH, RAF. DIRK BOGARDE, Queen's Royal Regiment. DENHOLM ELLIOTT, RAF. ARTHUR HILL, RCAF. HARDY KRÜGER, 38th SS. PAUL MAXWELL, Royal Canadian Artillery. LAURENCE OLIVIER, RAF.

A BIDGE TOO FAR 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏📽📽📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬

The RU-vid channel TIK history does a good break down on this battle. Having read the book as a kid and learning more since then, the move does a good job because if it covered everything the movie would be 10 hours long.

I love how at 3:07 they have an actual kid, and a teen using a g98 from the first world war. Considering its near the tail end of '44 it fits pretty well, even tho Im pretty sure the ss stopped putting the red background swastikas on helmets a few years prior to this and just kept the ss runes in like '41 or '42

Fun Fact: Despite the large budget ($27 million), enormous cast of stars, and difficult on-location shoot, producer Joseph E. Levine was actually in the black due to pre-bookings and sales of distribution rights before the movie's release. A Bridge Too Far went on to make $50,750,000 worldwide.

One week to prepare the most important air assault never made ! As the wisdom man said : fail to prepare mean be prepare to fail.

Great Movie..👍

One of my favourite things about this film is how the Germans aren't portrayed as cackling comicbook villains , intent on destroying the world for no other reason than its own ends. Even Hitler thought he was doing good and his generals were hoping to benefit the German People. War is a terrible thing however you look at it and there's obviously bad eggs on all sides but at least this seemed more realistic.

Hardy Kruger as "General Ludwig" is a mixture of Colonel Harzer of 9th SS and Brigadier Harmel of 10th SS.Apparently Harzer was unwilling to be portrayed,so they just made up a new character.

I bet this inspired some of the battle scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" 20 years later.

One of the voices that the allied soldiers feared was the sound of a Tiger tank from Germany

3:06 like six-year-old kid

This film was shot mostly in the Netherlands , the brige they used for Arnhem is in Deventer and is still there .

A movie where the Good Guys.....loss.......... I was twelve when I saw this movie with my Dad, he being a USN sailor, wanted to show me what it would be like being in the US Army. Well, when I saw this movie I think I wept when that scene of the parachute re-supply came...After I asked, "what happened, what did he get??". NOW, I did Enlist, but in the USN, for 20+ years....and proud to do it, But............. I will NEVER Forget what those Allies have done during the "Greatest Generation", and have seen the this movie several times now......I still get 'misty-eyed' during that same re-supply, though.

Oh no, at 2:21 Cliff Clavin - dead. It's a little known fact there Sammy, that I was killed 38 years ago during Operation Market Garden...

Btw this film was shot by Geoffrey Unsworth, who also shot Superman the Movie. This and Superman were some of the last projects he shot before dying in 1978.

My dad took me to see this and at 8 years old I did not grasp that the film was about the biggest allied blunder in the European Theatre. To me it was just a movie about World War 2.

6:32 The American Sherman tank has begun to run....... 6:45 The tank that runs on the bridge is the German Leopard tank. It's a shooting mistake. 日本語：橋を渡り始めたのはシャーマン戦車6:32、6:45にはレオパルド戦車が渡ってます。

one of the last great war/action movies before the constant scene switching and shaky/jumpin' around of the ADD parkinsons cameraman that has ruined these types of movies

The most accurate war movie ever made.

Ah Goddammit...it was just getting to the best part!

That Catholic(?) American Major must've been really scared to death. He couldn't even finish reciting his "Hail Marys". In Nagasaki, there are plenty of Catholic people. I am familiar with that prayer.

Weird the version of this is missing the subtitles. For it's time, this movie was as good as it got for authenticity. None of the cliche horseshit one-liners you would usually see.

It's madness to fight such enven though it's movie....

Interessante mesmo...A tenacidade dos EUA é 5 povo patriota!

Was this the only movie that Anthony Hopkins did with Sean Connery?

Remind me why the bridge didn’t blow? Did that guy just mess up or did the Allie’s cut the wires or something? Been awhile since I’ve seen this movie

Ran out of Motrin ...back is sore 😫 Goddd, I need the Motrin

Pretty good movie. I saw it in theaters back in 1977 when I was 16. Loved it then, but even at that time I was disappointed that pretty boy Robert Redford did not get a military style haircut for this role.

There is now a bridge at that place called "De Oversteek" or as in English "The Crossing", every day at sunset at least one (Dutch) veteran will walk the "Sunset March", walking from Nijmegen to the other side. While crossing the bridge 48 pairs of streetlights will light up, one by one to remember those 48 Americans who lost their lives at this crossing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tXhyFJ1j1oY.html

The book September Hope, covers the American side of Market Garden, including the time the 82d and 101 spent in Holland after the main operation. There is also a History channel documentary on the battle with interviews with some Paratroopers that were there and made the river assault, including the Capt that argued with the Brit Tanker.

Yup, crossing rivers in combat is very hard. Even to this day.

Amen

If I had to place a blame on failure of market garden. Its not on planning, the plan was sound. The failure was on logistics.

Why do they put music in the middle of a battle?

RW:at the end of that clip it just shows how Americans and British could not cooperate or accomplish anything during that battle scene.😔

Definitely the high-water mark of Operation Market Garden.

Americanos e Ianques juntos na batalha!

Robert Redford had major rank on his shoulders and lieutenant colonel rank on his helmet

This time will be different they say as they take to the field

Few of the actors were knighted later years too

How did you go from bridge at remargen to a bridge too far. Both great movies but please its a strech of the imagination to jump between them.

Ah good ol Lieutenant Cliff Clavin

This looks like it was the Saving Private Ryan of its day...

You have never prevailed

Like sitting ducks in those boats.

Hail Mary full of grace....does he not know the rest of that?...

Heres the thing

The only minor thing wrong with this scene is that the Americans forgot to bring any ammunition with them. Not one cartridge belt between them.

He needs to learn more of the prayer.

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こういう映画を今は作れないのかね。

Why?

the funny thing about this movie is...you can saw Sherman tank using by germany..😂

And this time?

Der unverwundbare Redford. Er trifft jeden Feind. Nur ihn kann kein Feind treffen. Blödsinn.

When

Come on have a think