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Triple bill of war classics. 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) is Richard
Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault.
Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert Redford and Sean Connery are among
those battling against insurmountable odds - foul weather, bad luck,
negligence on the part of intelligence officers - to secure one of the
bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany. Gene Hackman,
Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins also star. 'The Great Escape' (1963)
is set during World War Two. A collection of hardened Allied prisoners
are kept in an 'escape-proof' German camp. Led by the 'Big X' (Richard
Attenborough), the men formulate a plan for a mass breakout, digging
three tunnels - Tom, Dick and Harry. The team behind the escape
includes a near-blind forger of passports (Donald Pleasance), a
claustrophobic tunnel-digger (Charles Bronson) and the independent
American 'Cooler King' (Steve McQueen). With men like that on their
side, how can they fail? Guy Hamilton's classic war film 'Battle of
Britain' (1969) looks at how England defended itself from the German
aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940. Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh
Dowding, the air chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevre the Luftwaffe,
despite a numerical disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so
much are portrayed by an all-star cast including Michael Caine, Kenneth
More and Ralph Richardson. Despite its pro-British slant, the
authenticity of the film's impressive flying sequences was guaranteed
by the technical advice of Adolf Galland, one of the Nazi's most
celebrated World War 2 pilots.
