Two divisions of US paratroopers are responsible for securing the road and bridges as far as Nijmegen. Operation Market Garden envisions 35,000 men being flown 300 miles (480 km) from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands. Though it received a tepid critical response, the film received several awards: at the 31st BAFTA Awards, it won four out of eight categories, including Fox for Best Supporting Actor and John Addison-who himself had served in the British XXX Corps during Market Garden-for Best Score.
The ensemble cast includes Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann. It was the second film based on the events of World War II's failed Operation Market Garden (after 1946's Theirs Is the Glory). Levine, it was the second film based on a book by historian Cornelius Ryan to be adapted for the screen (after 1962's The Longest Day). A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough and with a screenplay by William Goldman.
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