
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.

Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning

SSgt. Eddie Dohun

Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur

Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart

Lt. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks

Maj. Julian Cook

Col. Robert Stout

Lt. Col. John D. Frost

Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
Usually when you read the term "stellar" applied to a cast, it's more for marketing purposes to convince us that the cast is better than we might want to think - well not so, here. Connery, Caine, O'Neal, Olivier, Bogarde, Hackman, Hopkins, Caan, Schell & Liv Ullmann all chip into this true telling of "Operation Market Garden" - a co-ordinated attempt by the allies to use almost anything that will fly to parachute troops behind Nazi lines. Their purpose: to secure strategically important river crossings before the enemy have a chance to blow them to smithereens. Their missions are fraught with...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$22,000,000.00
Revenue $50,750,000.00