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23 October 1969 (Sweden)
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Thus ended the last great German stand in the West. more
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As the Allied armies close in, the Nazis decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen? full summary | add synopsis
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One of the best war movies from the '60s
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | George Segal | ... | Lt. Phil Hartman |
 | Robert Vaughn | ... | Maj. Paul Krüger |
 | Ben Gazzara | ... | Sgt. Angelo |
 | Bradford Dillman | ... | Maj. Barnes |
 | E.G. Marshall | ... | Brig. Gen. Shinner |
| Peter van Eyck | ... | Generaloberst von Brock (as Peter Van Eyck) |
| Hans Christian Blech | ... | Capt. Carl Schmidt |
| Heinz Reincke | ... | Holzgang |
| Joachim Hansen | ... | Capt. Otto Baumann |
| Sonja Ziemann | ... | Greta Holzgang |
| Anna Gaël | ... | French Girl (as Anna Gael) |
| Vít Olmer | ... | Lt. Zimring (as Vit Olmer) |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | Cpl. Grebs |
| Robert Logan | ... | Pvt. Bissell |
| Matt Clark | ... | Cpl. Jellicoe |
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115 min
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Iceland:16 |
UK:PG |
West Germany:12 (f) |
New Zealand:PG |
UK:A |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:M (original rating) |
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Some of the Jeeps in this film have a vertical bar on the front. This was to cut invisible wires set between two trees by the enemy to decapitate the soldiers.
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Continuity: During the beginning scenes, you see the train approaching the Obercassel Bridge in a gentle right curve. Then you see the M24 Chaffee tanks and their support running for the Bridge. Then the error appears: The armor is seen on the river road, but the negative is reversed. Names on the tanks are reversed, the truck's steering wheel is on the right side, and the train is now making a gentle *left* curve onto the bridge. Reversal ends as the sequence ends with the explosion/destruction of the bridge.
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General Shinner:
We're not going to blow that bridge, Barnes, we're going to take it!
Major Barnes: Take it?
General Shinner: As long as it's still standing, we've got a chance. When we get out there, cut every wire and cable. Dent, alert HQ. Ask 'em to give us every available unit on the double.
Col. Dent: Yessir.
Major Barnes: Jesus, sir. I mean, I hate to think of our men in the middle of the bridge when they blow it.
General Shinner: It's a crapshoot, Major. Take that bridge and we shorten the war. We're risking a hundred men, but we may save 10,000 - even 50,000! It's your chance to make history, Major! What you've got to do is throw your men across. Now, Major!
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Major Barnes: Take it?
General Shinner: As long as it's still standing, we've got a chance. When we get out there, cut every wire and cable. Dent, alert HQ. Ask 'em to give us every available unit on the double.
Col. Dent: Yessir.
Major Barnes: Jesus, sir. I mean, I hate to think of our men in the middle of the bridge when they blow it.
General Shinner: It's a crapshoot, Major. Take that bridge and we shorten the war. We're risking a hundred men, but we may save 10,000 - even 50,000! It's your chance to make history, Major! What you've got to do is throw your men across. Now, Major!
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Referenced in Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000) (TV)
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This has to be one of the best war movies made in the 1960s, an era when all too often filmmakers went overboard in glorifying war while glossing over its horrors and populating their movies with larger-than-life hero characters who could have come straight out of a boys' comic. This movie doesn't fall into that trap. The characters - both German and American - are believable, and the movie sets and the equipment used (with the glaring exception of Korean War era American tanks) are authentic for the period. With so many WWII Sherman tanks and other vehicles still in museums, private collections and (at least back in the 60s) still in use in large numbers in the armies of several smaller countries, it has always been a puzzle to me as to why so many moviemakers took the simple option and used anachronistic military hardware in WWII movies, presumably assuming that the average moviegoer wouldn't even notice or wouldn't care. The most horrible example of this is the 1965 movie "Battle Of The Bulge". But I digress. Ignoring the tank factor, "The Bridge At Remagen" is a great movie. The best performance among many strong ones in this film has to be that of Ben Gazzara as Sergeant "Angel" Angelo, and the scene in which he kills the German sniper is extremely strong, moving stuff. Highly recommended.