Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #343 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-05-24
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: Dutch, English, German
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 168 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
1977's A Bridge Too Far by director Richard Attenborough features an all-star cast in an epic rendering of a daring but ultimately disastrous raid behind enemy lines in Holland during the Second World War. A lengthy and exhaustive look at the mechanics of warfare and the price and futility of war, the film is almost too large for its aims but manages to be both picaresque and affecting, particularly in the performance of James Caan. The impressive cast includes Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery and Liv Ullmann among others. While not a classic war film, it nevertheless manages to be a consistently interesting and exciting adventure. --Robert Lane

Special Features

• A Bridge Too Far: Heroes From The Sky documentary
  
• A Distant Battle: Memories of Operation Market Garden feature
  
• Richard Attenborough: A Filmmaker Remembers feature
  
• Audio commentary with screenwriter William Goldman
  
• Trivia track
  
• Photo gallery
  
• Original theatrical trailer

DVD Technical Information:

• Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 (French, English)
  
• Running Time: 168 mins
  
• Region Code: 2
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
  
• Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English for the hearing impaired, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish

Synopsis
Richard Attenborough's ambitious, all-star adaptation of Cornelius Ryan's book, scripted by William Goldman, gives an account of the Battle of Arnhem during 1944, part of an Allied attempt to expedite the end of the war with a costly operation to capture six bridges connecting Holland to Germany. A multitude of notable actors--such as Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Olivier, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Robert Redford, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Edward Fox, James Caan, Elliott Gould, and many more--star in this military epic.