I've never made a serious study of Market Garden and watching the film on TV with Elliot Gould telling the Royal Engineers what to do etc was enough to make view it as more Hollywood casual entertainment.

However, at the time when the film was due for release in Britain, I was working for Lt.Col. Brian Hodges who was there with the Paras. I walked into his office one morning to find him in a flushed rage - they only time in two years I ever saw him that way. The reason for his rage was that film. He told me he and his comrades were contacting their MPs and other influential people they knew, to get it banned or at least edited.

Of course, nothing happened about the film as its success meant bucks for the UK cinemas and the British investors and the future bucks from US film work in the UK. Attenborough (not the animal one but the smarmy sh/t my old man slapped many years ago - way to go dad ) has shown on numerous occasions he's only interested in lovie points and bucks and if that includes selling out British history, so what. [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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