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A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film directed by Richard Attenborough.It depicts Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film's screenplay, by William Goldman, is based on a book of the same title by historian Cornelius Ryan. [5]
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Cover of "Collector's Edition" boxed set, 1976. Arnhem, subtitled "Operation Market-Garden, September 1944" and also published as A Bridge Too Far: Arnhem, is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates Operation Market Garden during World War II, when Allied forces attempted to create a salient in the Netherlands, using paratroopers to take ...
What a Lovely War (1969), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Gandhi (1982). Fox won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for playing Edward VIII in the television drama series Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978). He also appeared in the historical series Taboo (2017). In addition to film and television work, Fox has received acclaim as a stage ...
A Bridge Too Far may refer to: "A bridge too far", an idiom inspired by Operation Market Garden, meaning an act of overreaching; A Bridge Too Far, a non-fiction book by Cornelius Ryan on Operation Market Garden; A Bridge Too Far, a film based on the book, directed by Richard Attenborough; Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far, a video game based on ...
Horrocks acted as a military consultant for the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, based on Operation Market Garden. [134] He was also a character in the film, played by Edward Fox. Fox later commented: I enjoyed all of the films but A Bridge Too Far is the one I enjoyed the most because of the character I had to play, Lieutenant-General Brian ...
1976 – Taxi Driver, Rocky, Network, Carrie, All the President's Men, In the Realm of the Senses, 1900, Logan's Run; 1977 – Star Wars (original trilogy), Annie Hall, Saturday Night Fever, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, A Bridge Too Far, Eraserhead, Providence
Major General John Dutton Frost, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DL (31 December 1912 – 21 May 1993) was an airborne officer of the British Army, best known for being the leader of the small group of British airborne troops that actually arrived at Arnhem bridge during the Battle of Arnhem in Operation Market Garden, in the Second World War.