| |
Get All The Greatest Big Band & Jazz Music On 10 Different CD's From The
Roaring 20's To The Swinging Jazz 30's And To The Post World War II Era...
The film opens with the U.S. Army failing to capture the still-intact Oberkassel railway bridge. Lieutenant Hartman is an
experienced combat team leader who is becoming weary of the war in Europe. After he is promoted to company commander following
the reckless death of the previous officer, Hartman is ordered to advance to the Rhine River at Remagen where he is promised a
rest for his men. At the same time, Major Paul Kreuger of the Wehrmacht is tasked with destroying the Remagen bridge by his
friend and superior, Colonel General von Brock, who has been given a written order to do it immediately. The general appeals
to Kreuger's sense of honor, giving him a verbal command to defend the bridge for as long as possible, to allow the 15th Army
trapped on the west bank of the river to escape. After capturing the undefended town of Meckenheim, four miles from Remagen,
Hartman is ordered by his battalion commander, Major Barnes, to continue the advance until encountering resistance. Kreuger
tours the defences above the town of Remagen and assures the handful of troops, which are just old men and boys, that the
general personally guaranteed tank reserves are on the way. When Hartman's troops attack the town, Kreuger is shown the
reality when he calls for the promised tanks and is told they have been sent "elsewhere".
On finding the bridge intact, General Shinner orders Major Barnes to secure its capture, saying: "It's a crap shoot, Major.
We're risking one hundred men, but you may save ten thousand". Barnes agrees to send in Hartman's company, and orders the
troops to gain a foothold across the Rhine River, thus avoiding a costly assault-crossing elsewhere. Sergeant Angelo, one
of Hartman's squad leaders and friends strikes Barnes after the Major threatens Hartman. As the American soldiers rush the
bridge, Kreuger, along with explosives engineer Captain Baumann and Captain Schmidt from the Remagen Bridge Security Command,
try to blow up the bridge, but the explosives they use prove to be not the high-yield military grade charges needed for the
job, but weaker, industrial explosives, which fail to destroy the structure. Hartman's troops dig in to consolidate their
hold on the bridge. Kreuger shoots two soldiers as they try to desert. Realising the futility of the situation, Kreuger
returns to HQ to make a personal appeal to the general for more reinforcements, but on arrival finds that building taken
over by the SS. Von Brock has been arrested for being "defeatist". Kreuger is questioned about the delay to blow up the
bridge and arrested.
At Remagen, Hartman leads a raid against a machine gun nest installed by Kreuger on board a barge moored to the bridge, but while
taking its crew out, Angelo is hit and falls into the river. Hartman marches on foot towards the bridge defenders' post at the
same time as a squadron of M24 Chaffee light tanks cross the bridge. The remaining German soldiers surrender to the Americans.
In the aftermath of the battle, Hartman discovers Angelo alive. The next day, Kreuger is led out for execution by an SS firing
squad. With the sound of airplanes overhead, Kreuger asks: "Ours or theirs?". The SS attending officer replies, "Enemy planes,
sir!" "But who is the enemy?" muses Kreuger before he is shot. (In reality, Hitler ordered five men responsible for the failed
defense shot: one was convicted in absentia, four others executed).
A screen crawl informs the viewer that the actual structure collapsed into the Rhine ten days after its capture.
|
|
Starring ... |
George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall
|
Director: John Guillermin
Producer: David L. Wolper
Released - June 25, 1969
Length - 115 minutes
Music Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Movie Distributed by United Artists
|
To search and purchase anything related with the movie listed on this page
The Bridge At Remagen
,then simply just click on this link here.
Thank you...
Click on VHS tape
for enlarged view
CLICK HERE
to buy this VHS tape
|
|
|
Click on DVD tape
for enlarged view
CLICK HERE to Purchase DVD
|
Click on DVD tape
for enlarged view
CLICK HERE to Purchase DVD
|
Click on Blu-Ray
for enlarged view
CLICK HERE to Buy Blu-Ray
|
Return to the "World War II" Index Page
Get your favorite "MILITARY & WAR" videos in the BLU-RAY, DVD, VHS format or the
CD soundtracks which can be purchased through
AMAZON.com .
 Thank you very much...
Please Help Support This Site By Purchasing A Couple Of CD's
Come Visit The Historic Complete Victory At Sea Online Homepage
|
