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Originally Posted by PzJgr
For what it was, I think it was a great film and I still enjoy it. A great cast and it did bring a WWII battle to the public's eye. I will keep watching it.
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I agree. I like
'A Bridge Too Far' for what it is ( which Urquhart described as 'a reasonably accurate spectacular'..). Agreed it struggles to tell the overall story and things were made up/altered/oversimplified to 'fit' the script but some of the individual scenes and characterizations were very good.
And as PzJgr quite rightly says, it raised the profile of the Battle which resulted in many books of research and memoirs finding publishers and adding to our knowledge of the event.
And let's face it, raising the huge budget in Hollywood for a film which shows
the bad guys winning cannot have been an easy task......
