I’m only including one “Bridge” movie on this list, so I figured I’d give A Bridge Too Far the attention instead of the obvious choice of The Bridge on the River Kwai. While the latter has well-deserved status as a classic, A Bridge too Far is also terrific (if long), and boasts an amazing
cast of badasses including
Sean Connery,
James Caan, Robert Redford,
Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, and Laurence Olivier. It was an enormous success in Great Britain when it was released in 1977, but had a disappointing run in the U.S. — probably because, as the title implies, the good guys don’t exactly win the battle, and Vietnam-scarred audiences weren’t in the mood for a downer.
