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Actors: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Bridge at Remagen |
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In the waning days of the Second World War, the German High Command decides to destroy the final remaining bridge across the Rhine River to slow the Allied advance, even though this means trapping 75,000 Nazi soldiers on the wrong side of the river. American troops race to stop the explosion. This 1969 film was an early David Wolper production. The story is told somewhat from both sides, with Robert Vaughn playing the sympathetically cynical German Major Paul Krueger, tension shown between soldiers on the same side, and the suffering of German civilians at the hands of both armies depicted. The scenery is good, and veteran film composer Elmer Bernstein did a rousing score. Trivia note: Filming in Czechoslovakia was interrupted by the August 1968 Soviet invasion, and the cast and crew had to make a getaway in a convoy of 28 taxis!
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Bridge at Remagen |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Specific to
- WW II
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Specific kind of enemies?
- right wing dictatorship
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
Misc setting
- moving train
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- amphibious landings
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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