The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

Storyline

In the last days of World War II, the Allied Army desperatly searched for a bridgehead across the impenetrable Rhein River, in order to launch a major assault into the center of Germany. “Bridge at Remagen” tells the true story of the battle for this last bridgehead, from both the German and American perspective. The Bridge at Remagen, the 1969 John Guillermin World War II (WWII) military action thriller (“Thus ended the last great German stand in the West.”; “A dot on the map. A motion picture as big as history.”; “It’s hard to believe that after The Rape of Poland, The Fall of France, The Blitz of London and The Siege of Leningrad, one of the final blows of World War II came at a little iron bridge.”; “The Germans forgot one little bridge. Sixty-one days later they lost the war.”; “Hitler. Roosevelt. Eisenhower. Churchill. Montgomery. Only a handful of men knew this was the gateway to Berlin.”) starring George Segal, Robert Vaughn (best remembered from TV’s “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” and the “Helsinki Hair Formula” infomercials), Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall (billed as “Guest Star E.G. Marshall”), and Anna Gael