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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Spanish, Subtitled, Trivia, Notes, Dual Layer
An all-Star war epic about the disastrous 1944 allied airdrop into holland.
Editor's Note
Richard Attenborough's ambitious, all-star adaptation (by William Goldman) of Cornelius Ryan's book, gives an account of the Battle of Arnhem. In 1944, the Allied powers attempt to expedite the end of the war with a costly operation to capture six bridges connecting Holland to Germany ended in Allied defeat. A multitude of notables star in Attenborough's epic.
Plot Summary
Director Richard Attenborough's ambitious, all-star, adaptation of Cornelius Ryan's book, dealing with the true account of the Battle of Arnhem. In 1944, the Allied powers attempted to expedite the end of the war by planning an ambitious and costly operation (the capturing of six bridges connecting Holland to Germany) that ended up getting bungled by both the Allied and Axis powers.
| Features | Region 1 | | Letterbox - 1.85 |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 5/19/2009 |
| Running Time: 175 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1977 | | Catalog ID: 906757 | | UPC: 00027616675729 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...The last cast-of-thousands, star-studded war movie ever made, Attenborough's three-hour epic deserves repeated viewing..." -- 4 Stars 06/01/2000 p.102New York Times
"...Certainly equal to Darryl F. Zanuck's THE LONGEST DAY....One watches it not so much in admiration as in awe..." 06/16/1977 p.C20 |
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