The Bridge at Remagen Reviews

I have loved warfilms since I was a kid and this doesnt dissapoint...

Not as strong in the genre as say, "The Dirty Dozen," "Where Eagles Dare" or "The Guns of Navarone" - but it does compete in their class.

Robert Vaughn is the standout delivery here, as the head-Nazi-in-charge stuck between a rock and a hard place. George Segal, as the central American solider, just sort of plods along.

Stronger casting would have helped this vehicle. This is fiction wound around a basic framework of fact. Yes, there was this one last bridge over the Rhine, there was some battling over it, the Nazis wanted to destroy it to keep the Allies from using it to access Das Vaterland - and Vaughan's ultimate fate is accurate. Much of the rest appears to be Hollywood pulp.

What's also not told is that the actual bridge collapsed just 10 days after its taking - and it didn't really matter since the Americans just used pontoon bridges instead. Which reveals just how undramatic & nonstrategic taking this bridge truly was.

The bridge was never rebuilt. The still-standing stone twin turrets at its entrance each fly a flag, one American, one German.

Loosely draws upon an eye-witness novel.

Visuals, including DeLuxe color, are good.

RECOMMENDATION: If you've already seen and enjoyed the above-named WW2 films, then this one belongs in your Flix queue as well, but your expectations should be slightly lowered.

This is a fantastic WW2 film made at the time when Hollywood, affected by the zeitgeist of cynicism due to the war in Vietnam, made movies about less than honorable soldiers just doing their jobs. The officers and generals are either inept or egomaniacs who use their men as fodder to attain glory for themselves. And this is the view from both sides! There are basically two main sympathetic characters in this film, one being an American played by George Segal and the other a German played by Robert Vaughn. The film holds up well today and is a far better statement on the madness of war than most films made since.

Loved this movie from the frist time I saw it. Has its historical problems, but all around, I loved it.

The Bridge at Remagen was spoiled by poor attention to detail, for example the tanks should have been Shermans and other vehicles were inappropriate. Additionally the Germans should not have spoken English among themselves, subtitles would have been more effective.

An underrated gem that shows a very gritty and realistic view of WW2 while also asking important questions about war. Recommended for fans of War films!!!

An excellent war drama which for the period (1969) does not hold back in depicting the horror of war...and the futility of needless sacrifice while suggesting the demoralisation and degradation which Peckinpah would later portray so movingly in Cross of Iron

It's one of those well shot and wildly entertaining war film that makes you want to scream "AMERICA!" when it's finished.

THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN (1969)

A grandious Combination of a War and a Anti-War Movie who plays in the View of both the Allieds and the Germans and glory the Victory of the Allies and the Senseless of War on both Hands George Segal plays a Major of German Ancestry who's Assigment is to save a Important Bridge over the Rhine which the Germans originally want to destroy but then a General give the inoffical Order to defend the Bridge which is a senseless Manoeuvre the Actors play great, there lot of entertaining Gun Spread and Explosions and a bombastic Soundtrack my favourite Scene is when Major Hartman walk alone before the Troops trough the Bridge like a One Man-Army and the majestic Music which is played while that

Decent war movie. Some of the filming is simply amazing; there's one scene in which a woman in a street grabs a child and runs just as a building collapses right where the child had been standing. There's a lot of that stuff going on.

It'd be really funny how neither side can decide whether they want to destroy this bridge or protect it, except that the indecision has such disastrous consequences.