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Laurence Olivier | ||
Elliott Gould | Col. Robert Stout | |
Edward Fox | Lt. Gen. Brian Horrocks | |
Ryan O'Neal | Brig. Gen. James Gavin | |
Maximillian Schell | ||
Liv Ullmann | ||
Gene Hackman | Maj. Gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski | |
Anthony Hopkins | Lt. Col. John Frost | |
Sean Connery | Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart | |
James Caan | SSgt. Eddie Dohun | |
Dirk Bogarde | Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning | |
Michael Caine | Lt. Col. J.O.E. Vandeleur | |
Hardy Krüger | Maj. Gen. Ludwig | |
Siem Vroom | Underground Leader | |
Marlies van Alcmaer | Underground Leader's Wife | |
Erik van 't Wout | Underground Leader's Son | |
Wolfgang Preiss | Field Marshal Von Rundstedt | |
Hans von Borsody | General Blumentritt | |
Josephine Peeper | Cafe Waitress | |
Paul Maxwell | Major General Maxwell Taylor |
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Producer | Joseph E. Levine
Richard P. Levine John Palmer |
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Writer | William Goldman
Cornelius Ryan |
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Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth
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Musician | John Addison
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In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. But a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and even worse weather led to disaster beyond the Allies darkest fears. |
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