This is one of the stupids attacks from the german troops i haver ever seen in a movie... Hollywood seems to think all german soldiers were idiots in WWII!
@seralia1 that attack actually happened. German armored troops DID attempt a crossing of the bridge, and were successfully repulsed. look at any aerial photos of the bridge during the battle: COVERED in trashed German APC's and trucks.
The makers of this film went to a lot trouble to make sure the film was historically accurate. I remember seeing this in the movie theater as boy in New Jersey when it was released. It's a world better historically compared to most of CGI crap coming out of Hollywood. Brave Heart comes to mind for those who know the bridge in that movie is not shown or mentioned. Crap history!
man, that bit at the end of the German armored assault, where that Feldwebel tried to rescue the Commander but gets shot, is a real standout. it shows that even in Hitler's army, there were still friendships and concern for your fellows.
@Keisari70 germans are always the dumb ones in films like these, they always outnumber the allied soldiers. also, they are perfectly equipped while the allied guy has a garand with two bullets left. yet he still manages to slaughter several german armies... its just hollywood.
but i have to say that in this film they get away quite good compared to other films.
@Keisari70 Actually that was an accurate historical assault. An SS column tried to make a fool's run at the other end of the bridge and were torn to pieces.
@wasistdaswasdasist Whether it's depicted in a Hollywood manner in this movie or not, fact is Frost's men on the bridge did blow up that ammo dump which set the reasonably fresh paint of the bridge on fire... and the next day they really stopped that German armoured column with their light arms. I have an aerial reconnaissance photo of that shot up column on the deck of the Arnhem bridge in a book about Market Garden to prove it - a rather messy and charred heep of mangled German steel!
@provocase well i spose the brits had to save face after michael wittman anniliated an entire british coloum single handedly with his tiger tank turning scores of british steel into soup..... well american steel that is you brits didnt really have any steel of your own worth mentioning... the cromwell??? lol yeah
@cherielsl What you see in this scene is just a movie rendition or interpretation. It's a dramatisation of an actual event. How it actually happened that day on the Arnhem bridge I cannot tell you. But I know if I had been in one of those vehicles that day I surely would not have exposed myself like that. But the fact remains John Frost's men stopped that German (lightly) armoured column (i.e. no heavy panzers) on that bridge... aerial reconnaissance photo's prove it.
The time of that bridge attack actually lasted 2 hours.
In fact, the movie has taken many liberties. The real attack started with 4 German halftracks at the head of the column actually getting across the bridge and into Arnhem - so what really did happen was the rest of the armoured column thought that they were likely going to get across easily too.
The movie doesn't show the reality of where the German column was destroyed - The Brits opened up after much of the column got over.
See my channel's featured clip on the battle for more real facts of the battle- including the five Airborne 6 pounder anti-tank guns the Brits had at the bridge perimeter - two of which helped destroy that first bridge attack.
They ran into a well timed ambush by the variety of Airborne units - most of the vehicles were actually destroyed once they got past the bridge..... they were following 4 of their vehicles that actually went across without being fired upon - in the real battle.
@PanakaStigLitz loads of them were shot before they hit the ground why these films allways try to make the germans look stupid?and have you noticed these days we never say the germans its allways the nazis
Not really..... it's actually the neonazis who try to insinuate that all Germans in WW2 were Nazis. It shows how brainwashed and stupid neonazis are; the fact is only 10% of Germans at most were actual Nazi Party members....... and the Nazis killed or persecuted hundreds of thousands of Germans who were deemed 'anti-Nazis in WW2.
This movie did show silly prejudice in making the British look like having fun at the beach until things got bad.
There were also 2 AT guns that the British had in the bridge perimeter that helped destroy that column attack too..... the movie doesn't show them. See my channel clip about the battle
@wasistdaswasdasist you've clearly never seen armored Military vehicles on the move. not exactly speed demons. the top speed of the Panzer units was 30 Mph. those armored cars and halftracks were designed to support the panzers, and so didn't run much faster. and this actually happened. look it up. In a BOOK, if possible.
I found this info about "Major Tatham-Warter lead a bayonet charge against Germans carrying a pistol in one hand, madly swinging his umbrella about his head with the other, and now sporting a bowler hat on his head - which he had obtained from God knows where - doing his best to look like Charlie Chaplin. On another occasion he used the rolled up umbrella to in-effect disable a German armoured car, simply by thrusting it through an observation slit in the vehicle and incapacitating the driver".
YEEEEEAAA! thats what i like to see .. for an old movie i rate this 5 stars.. good effects for the time period.. (i like the german officer who led the counter attack across the brigde) {i hear the nazis are eight feet tall}
8010cookie To be honest i'm not an expert but how would you immediately know there's a bunker there to begin with. That was the whole point of checking it out.
@ross79745 and 8010cookie do some research - NO this FACT witness Corporal Leslie A. McCreesh as in south side assault of the Arh Bridge in "the Bridge Too Far”, one of Les's officers, Major Tatham-Warter, is pictured leading this attack with his umbrella in hand. Les attests to the fact that this officer did in fact take his umbrella with him. In war some officers lead from the front and were respected by their men, some were insanely brave like robert cain(VC) watch?v=-kYKR7vXnyM
@8010cookie you are assuming they had the luxury of waiting till dark---they had to secure the bridge instantly--that was the whole point to sieze the bridges instantly--in anticipation of what they assumed would be rapid relief...also they were led to believe that resistance would be light.
@8010cookie I will have to go back and look in ryan's book and see if this actually happened...my recollection is the movie is pretty faithful to the book but when i have a moment i will check it again. In fact I think I will just re read the whole book. It looks as you say pretty stupid move but I can only guess as i said before they were so pressured by the time element---maybe that was the fatal flaw in OMG period, window was too small--that it probably led to wreckless moves.
@8010cookie one thing in the book NOT in the movie is that paratroopers at Arnheim had been issued uppers/speed before they left England..some took em and found it really was not a good idea...made em sick or screwed up their judgement.
@spoony2781 This is a reference to what the Brits call the Paddy factor. We uninformed Yanks tend to miss this. There were a lot of Irish (as well as Welsh, Scots, Indians, etc.; -the UK is quite a diverse force). The Irish have this reputation, whether deserved or not, of boning the job but the screw up turns out better than the original intended goal. There was in WWII, as is true today, a lot of Irish in the British Army.
6:13 scream you SS bastard
TalonMercenary 5 days ago
Yes for shure. And the german tank commander stands like a tree in the tank while the englands shot... stupid germans thats all
seralia1 2 months ago
did you see at 6:12 the guy been thrown out of the car epic fail
jorcastify 2 months ago
@jorcastify i think the bigger fail is 6:27. Where is that German car going LOL
TalonMercenary 5 days ago
This is one of the stupids attacks from the german troops i haver ever seen in a movie... Hollywood seems to think all german soldiers were idiots in WWII!
seralia1 3 months ago
@seralia1 that attack actually happened. German armored troops DID attempt a crossing of the bridge, and were successfully repulsed. look at any aerial photos of the bridge during the battle: COVERED in trashed German APC's and trucks.
Soundwave3591 2 months ago
In real life there was a pillbox on the brdige, they mentioned a PIAT took it out in the book.
Trashcansam123 3 months ago
The makers of this film went to a lot trouble to make sure the film was historically accurate. I remember seeing this in the movie theater as boy in New Jersey when it was released. It's a world better historically compared to most of CGI crap coming out of Hollywood. Brave Heart comes to mind for those who know the bridge in that movie is not shown or mentioned. Crap history!
mosquito103 4 months ago
she does realize that there's something of a war going on, doesn't she?
midgetman2142 4 months ago
This was my favorite part of the film!
Deckers9870 5 months ago
man, that bit at the end of the German armored assault, where that Feldwebel tried to rescue the Commander but gets shot, is a real standout. it shows that even in Hitler's army, there were still friendships and concern for your fellows.
Soundwave3591 6 months ago
4:45 reminds me of the road warrior
BizWiz2000 6 months ago
The banter between the Brits is just priceless. Gotta love them.
Clonetrooper1139 6 months ago
only a brit would bring an unbrella on a clear day.
BeantownJim 7 months ago
@BeantownJim He carries it in case he forgets the password. He knows no Jerry would ever carry one.
PhinfanUK 6 months ago
Those are Brens they are firing? Because spraying Brens would waste your ammo very fast.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
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5.09 This movie is one of the few were soldiers actually aim. Bravo!
DutchPetriot 7 months ago
Yes the Germans would drive on the bridge realy slow like on a parade.And expose themselfs like that to enemy fire.BULLSHIT!
Keisari70 8 months ago
@Keisari70 Too fast and they wouldn't be able to hit anything.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
@Keisari70 germans are always the dumb ones in films like these, they always outnumber the allied soldiers. also, they are perfectly equipped while the allied guy has a garand with two bullets left. yet he still manages to slaughter several german armies... its just hollywood.
but i have to say that in this film they get away quite good compared to other films.
1993heavenshallburn 7 months ago
@Keisari70 Actually that was an accurate historical assault. An SS column tried to make a fool's run at the other end of the bridge and were torn to pieces.
Clonetrooper1139 6 months ago
@Clonetrooper1139 Yes and we all know how Hollywood always stays true to facts.Btw I got the London bridge to sell you intrested mate? :)
Keisari70 6 months ago
@Keisari70 Why don't you read the book by Cornelius Ryan. Not interested in the London Bridge but if you have a bag of crumpets give me a ring.
Clonetrooper1139 6 months ago
Hmmm. Fighting back so many armored cars with handheld weapons?
Luckily, the Germans were standing upright and were driving really slowly.....
wasistdaswasdasist 8 months ago
@wasistdaswasdasist Whether it's depicted in a Hollywood manner in this movie or not, fact is Frost's men on the bridge did blow up that ammo dump which set the reasonably fresh paint of the bridge on fire... and the next day they really stopped that German armoured column with their light arms. I have an aerial reconnaissance photo of that shot up column on the deck of the Arnhem bridge in a book about Market Garden to prove it - a rather messy and charred heep of mangled German steel!
provocase 7 months ago 10
@provocase well i spose the brits had to save face after michael wittman anniliated an entire british coloum single handedly with his tiger tank turning scores of british steel into soup..... well american steel that is you brits didnt really have any steel of your own worth mentioning... the cromwell??? lol yeah
timebandit71 5 months ago
@timebandit71 apart from balls of steel
NorthernMonkeyUK 5 months ago
@timebandit71 like the sherman Firefly, a sherman upgunned with a BRITISH AT gun, as American guns were useless?
Soundwave3591 4 months ago
@provocase but why would the german cross the bridge like that? the men on the vehicle were clearly so exposed!
cherielsl 3 months ago
@cherielsl What you see in this scene is just a movie rendition or interpretation. It's a dramatisation of an actual event. How it actually happened that day on the Arnhem bridge I cannot tell you. But I know if I had been in one of those vehicles that day I surely would not have exposed myself like that. But the fact remains John Frost's men stopped that German (lightly) armoured column (i.e. no heavy panzers) on that bridge... aerial reconnaissance photo's prove it.
provocase 3 months ago
@provocase
The time of that bridge attack actually lasted 2 hours.
In fact, the movie has taken many liberties. The real attack started with 4 German halftracks at the head of the column actually getting across the bridge and into Arnhem - so what really did happen was the rest of the armoured column thought that they were likely going to get across easily too.
The movie doesn't show the reality of where the German column was destroyed - The Brits opened up after much of the column got over.
PanakaStigLitz 3 months ago
@provocase
See my channel's featured clip on the battle for more real facts of the battle- including the five Airborne 6 pounder anti-tank guns the Brits had at the bridge perimeter - two of which helped destroy that first bridge attack.
PanakaStigLitz 3 months ago
@cherielsl
They ran into a well timed ambush by the variety of Airborne units - most of the vehicles were actually destroyed once they got past the bridge..... they were following 4 of their vehicles that actually went across without being fired upon - in the real battle.
PanakaStigLitz 3 months ago
@PanakaStigLitz loads of them were shot before they hit the ground why these films allways try to make the germans look stupid?and have you noticed these days we never say the germans its allways the nazis
september7891 2 months ago
@september7891
Not really..... it's actually the neonazis who try to insinuate that all Germans in WW2 were Nazis. It shows how brainwashed and stupid neonazis are; the fact is only 10% of Germans at most were actual Nazi Party members....... and the Nazis killed or persecuted hundreds of thousands of Germans who were deemed 'anti-Nazis in WW2.
This movie did show silly prejudice in making the British look like having fun at the beach until things got bad.
PanakaStigLitz 2 months ago
@provocase
There were also 2 AT guns that the British had in the bridge perimeter that helped destroy that column attack too..... the movie doesn't show them. See my channel clip about the battle
PanakaStigLitz 2 months ago
@wasistdaswasdasist you've clearly never seen armored Military vehicles on the move. not exactly speed demons. the top speed of the Panzer units was 30 Mph. those armored cars and halftracks were designed to support the panzers, and so didn't run much faster. and this actually happened. look it up. In a BOOK, if possible.
Soundwave3591 4 months ago
stupid old hag needs to shut her mouth
Timmyboy505 8 months ago
Wow. You have James Bond, Alfred 'The Butler', and Hannibal Lecter in the same movie? AWESHUM.
calendanime 8 months ago
Wow. You have James Bond, Alfred 'The Butler', and Hannibal Lecter in the same the movie? AWESHUM.
calendanime 8 months ago
I found this info about "Major Tatham-Warter lead a bayonet charge against Germans carrying a pistol in one hand, madly swinging his umbrella about his head with the other, and now sporting a bowler hat on his head - which he had obtained from God knows where - doing his best to look like Charlie Chaplin. On another occasion he used the rolled up umbrella to in-effect disable a German armoured car, simply by thrusting it through an observation slit in the vehicle and incapacitating the driver".
theapeman10 9 months ago
PIAT is like a direct-firing mortar... Hence no back flame, safe to use in-door. =]
RaptureandZune 9 months ago
8:13 Looks and sounds like Ben Cross. Didn't realize until now that he was in this movie, too.
rredhawk2 10 months ago
A lot of the quotes in the book are in the movie.
1916jutland 10 months ago
movies never show all the points. good film though
MrLesterGibson 1 year ago
YEEEEEAAA! thats what i like to see .. for an old movie i rate this 5 stars.. good effects for the time period.. (i like the german officer who led the counter attack across the brigde) {i hear the nazis are eight feet tall}
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
Why is he doing that at 3:30?
DeltaSniperZRR 1 year ago
8010cookie To be honest i'm not an expert but how would you immediately know there's a bunker there to begin with. That was the whole point of checking it out.
MisterSam1000 1 year ago
I have been on that brigde :)
Killerkalle06 1 year ago
That was so stupid if they did do that in the beggining. I mean wow theres a bunker right there. Obviously go when its dark. Hollywood am i right?
8010cookie 1 year ago 6
@8010cookie Hollywood indeed !
ross79745 1 year ago
@ross79745 I don't know, I have read Ryan's book several times and this is a pretty faithful recreation. i might add the director is Britiish
555paint 1 year ago
@ross79745 and 8010cookie do some research - NO this FACT witness Corporal Leslie A. McCreesh as in south side assault of the Arh Bridge in "the Bridge Too Far”, one of Les's officers, Major Tatham-Warter, is pictured leading this attack with his umbrella in hand. Les attests to the fact that this officer did in fact take his umbrella with him. In war some officers lead from the front and were respected by their men, some were insanely brave like robert cain(VC) watch?v=-kYKR7vXnyM
theapeman10 9 months ago
@8010cookie all the way they would not do that in really war.
warstater15 1 year ago
@8010cookie Thats what the para reg does - keep momentum and push on. The longer you wait the more force you may have to use.
However I may have used binos to see if there was anyone in the bunker BEFORE I walked up the bridge waving an umbrella!
MollieMcBullets 1 year ago
@8010cookie you are assuming they had the luxury of waiting till dark---they had to secure the bridge instantly--that was the whole point to sieze the bridges instantly--in anticipation of what they assumed would be rapid relief...also they were led to believe that resistance would be light.
555paint 1 year ago
@555paint Yes i agree, but lets look at the points...
-There is a bunker probably with machine gunners in it (mg-42) maybe
-They sent there men right up against the pill box
-If they were trying to secure the bridge they wouldnt just "run away" the second the machine gun inevitably started firing
Don get me wrong i am British common wealth i love this movie but i was just wondering you know?
8010cookie 1 year ago
@8010cookie I will have to go back and look in ryan's book and see if this actually happened...my recollection is the movie is pretty faithful to the book but when i have a moment i will check it again. In fact I think I will just re read the whole book. It looks as you say pretty stupid move but I can only guess as i said before they were so pressured by the time element---maybe that was the fatal flaw in OMG period, window was too small--that it probably led to wreckless moves.
555paint 1 year ago
@8010cookie one thing in the book NOT in the movie is that paratroopers at Arnheim had been issued uppers/speed before they left England..some took em and found it really was not a good idea...made em sick or screwed up their judgement.
555paint 1 year ago
@555paint Thats interesting man, and yes! All i had meant by my comment is that Movies sometimes dont show all of the points
8010cookie 1 year ago
@8010cookie they had a schedule to keep to
ampthilluk 10 months ago
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@ampthilluk Yes i agree, but lets look at the points...
-There is a bunker probably with machine gunners in it (mg-42) maybe
-They sent there men right up against the pill box
-If they were trying to secure the bridge they wouldnt just "run away" the second the machine gun inevitably started firing
Don get me wrong i am British common wealth i love this movie but i was just wondering you know?
8010cookie 2 months ago
8010cookie 10 months ago
@8010cookie You took the words right aou of my mouth.
I hope, it is hollywood.
And even if they tried at daylight because of pressing time, they could have crawled along the edge instead of walking upright
wasistdaswasdasist 8 months ago 2
@wasistdaswasdasist EXACTLY! I am glad this was noticed by others as-well!!
8010cookie 8 months ago
@8010cookie they prolly just wanted to make some sort of attempt to take the bridge as soon as possible even if it meant probing in daylight ;o
chidoriookami 4 months ago
got to love your piats.
mrshlmoltke 1 year ago
How come the flamethrower party start off as North Easteners, then turn into Welsh and Birmingham respectivley, then go back to being both Welsh?
Sabreur64 1 year ago
@Sabreur64 Good question.
AmersfoortTristan 1 year ago
What a damn mess.
SuperJogvan 1 year ago 7
@14Praetorian Isn't one of them brummy?
Honestdom 1 year ago
it's an ammo dump!
we've hit thebloody ammo dump!. shit!
spoony2781 1 year ago
@spoony2781 This is a reference to what the Brits call the Paddy factor. We uninformed Yanks tend to miss this. There were a lot of Irish (as well as Welsh, Scots, Indians, etc.; -the UK is quite a diverse force). The Irish have this reputation, whether deserved or not, of boning the job but the screw up turns out better than the original intended goal. There was in WWII, as is true today, a lot of Irish in the British Army.
Klendathue 1 year ago
@Klendathue but them two para's wern't irish mate, they were welshman hence the "boyo" phrase.
14Praetorian 1 year ago
can u upload the rest of the movie?i would appreciate that
findingsomething1 1 year ago
where the other parts can some 1 tell me please
JohnAdams198805 1 year ago