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** Creator/GeneHackman plays a Polish officer.
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** Creator/GeneHackman plays a Polish officer.officer; he said in interviews that the hardest thing was speaking English with precise diction, the polar opposite of his usual New York accent.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, and in lesser roles Creator/BenCross, Creator/DenholmElliott, [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]], and Creator/JohnRatzenberger.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, and in lesser roles Creator/BenCross, Creator/DenholmElliott, [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]], Arthur Hill, and Creator/JohnRatzenberger.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, and minor roles for Creator/BenCross, Creator/DenholmElliott, [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]], and Creator/JohnRatzenberger.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, and minor in lesser roles for Creator/BenCross, Creator/DenholmElliott, [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]], and Creator/JohnRatzenberger.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/BenCross, and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* AllStarCast: Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, and minor roles for Creator/BenCross, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/BenCross, and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]]. Hagon]], and Creator/JohnRatzenberger.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* AllStarCast: Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/BenCross, and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: To ''Film/TheLongestDay'', another star-studded WWII film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from a book by Cornelius Ryan and with Creator/SeanConnery.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The German title is ''Die Brücke von Arnheim'' ("The Bridge of Arnhem").
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* OnSetInjury: Stuntman Alf Joint was seriously injured while performing a stunt in which he jumped off a roof. He said of the experience that he felt he was being "pushed."
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* TheDanza: Almost. Gerald Sim plays Colonel Sim'''s'''.
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* NamesTheSame: Almost. Gerald Sim plays Colonel Sim'''s'''.
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* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/RichardAttenborough agreed to direct the film so that ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'' could get made.
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* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/RichardAttenborough agreed to direct the film and ''Film/{{Magic}}'' so that ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'' could get made.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The scenes in Arnhem were actually filmed on an identical bridge further north in Deventer, as Arnhem had lost its historic city center.
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** Creator/DirkBogarde was an Royal Army intelligence officer who actually served under General Browning, whom he plays in the film. He was one of the first Allied officers to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.
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** Creator/DirkBogarde was an Royal British Army intelligence officer who actually served under General Browning, whom he plays in the film. He was one of the first Allied officers to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.
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** Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/EdwardFox were conscripted into National Service. Caine was a Royal Army infantryman during the Korean War, and Fox was Lieutenant with the Loyal Regiment.
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** Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/EdwardFox were conscripted into National Service. Caine was a Royal British Army infantryman during the Korean War, and Fox was Lieutenant with the Loyal Regiment.
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** Austrian-born Swiss actor Creator/MaximilanSchell plays Wilhelm Bittrich, who was Saxon.
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** Austrian-born Swiss actor Creator/MaximilanSchell Creator/MaximilianSchell plays Wilhelm Bittrich, who was Saxon.
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* AllStarCast: Dirk Bogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* AllStarCast: Dirk Bogarde, Creator/DirkBogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* AllStarCast: Dirk Bogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilanSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* AllStarCast: Dirk Bogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/MaximilanSchell, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* FakeAmerican: General Taylor, Capt. Glass, Lt. Rafferty, and Col. Gold are all played by Canadians.
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* FakeAmerican: General Taylor, Capt. Glass, Lt. Rafferty, and Col. Gold Several of the American officers are all played by Canadians.Canadian actors.
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* ReferencedBy: Music/{{Sabaton}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJVkE14kjhE "Screaming Eagles"]] (about the Battle of the Bulge) references the failed Operation Market Garden with the line "They're stretched out just one bridge too far".
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** Dirk Bogarde an Royal Army intelligence officer who actually served under General Browning, whom he plays in the film. He was one of the first Allied officers to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.
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** Dirk Bogarde Creator/DirkBogarde was an Royal Army intelligence officer who actually served under General Browning, whom he plays in the film. He was one of the first Allied officers to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.
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** Creator/GeneHackman lied about his age at 16 to enlist in the Marine Corps, and served as a field radio operator for four-and-a-half years.
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** Creator/GeneHackman lied about his age at 16 to enlist in the Marine Corps, Corps and served as a field radio operator for four-and-a-half years.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Several scenes critics called out for being unrealistic actually happened. The most notable example was the sequence where Sgt. Dohun finds his Captain with a bullet in the head, drives straight through enemy lines to get him to a medical tent, holds a field doctor at gunpoint to force him to give surgery, and the doctor being shocked to learn the Captain's still alive. [[https://www.facebook.com/notes/judy-wolfe/the-story-behind-the-stories-about-major-legs-johnson-sgt-charles-dohun/676850309073260/ This happened pretty much exactly as the film shows.]]
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* AllStarCast: Dirk Bogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Maximilan Schell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* AllStarCast: Dirk Bogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Maximilan Schell, Creator/MaximilanSchell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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** Austrian-born Swiss actor Maximilan Schell Creator/MaximilanSchell plays Wilhelm Bittrich, who was Saxon.
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** Creator/RogerMoore was initially cast as Lt. Gen. Brian Horrocks, but was unable to appear when problems surrounding the Bond franchise meant that ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' was made a year later than originally planned, therefore coinciding with the production dates. In addition, Horrocks had approval over the character and turned Moore down, and the role instead went to Edward Fox (who [[LargeHam nailed it]]).
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** Creator/RogerMoore was initially cast as Lt. Gen. Brian Horrocks, but was unable to appear when problems surrounding the Bond franchise meant that ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' was made a year later than originally planned, therefore coinciding with the production dates. In addition, Horrocks had approval over the character and turned Moore down, and the role instead went to Edward Fox Creator/EdwardFox (who [[LargeHam nailed it]]).
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* AllStarCast: Dirk Bogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Ryan O'Neal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Maximilan Schell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/StarWarsANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* AllStarCast: Dirk Bogarde, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/ElliottGould, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Hardy Krüger, Ryan O'Neal, Creator/RyanONeal, Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Maximilan Schell, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/DenholmElliott and minor roles for Creator/JohnRatzenberger and [[Film/StarWarsANewHope [[Film/ANewHope Garrick "Biggs" Hagon]].
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* BigInJapan: ''A Bridge Too Far'' was the most expensive film ever produced at the time, but bombed in the U.S. It was, however, a hit in Europe.
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** Austrian-born Swiss actor Maximilan Schell plays Wilhelm Bittrich, who was Saxon.
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* FakeAmerican: General Taylor, Capt. Glass, Lt. Rafferty, and Col. Gold are all played by Canadians.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Several scenes critics called out for being unrealistic actually happened. The most notable example was the sequence where Sgt. Dohun finds his Captain with a bullet in the head, drives straight through enemy lines to get him to a medical tent, holds a field doctor at gunpoint to force him to give surgery, and the doctor being shocked to learn the Captain's still alive. [[https://www.facebook.com/notes/judy-wolfe/the-story-behind-the-stories-about-major-legs-johnson-sgt-charles-dohun/676850309073260/ This happened pretty much exactly as the film shows.]]
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* NamesTheSame: Almost. Gerald Sim plays Colonel Sim'''s'''.
