Movies

August, 1977

Epic films about World War Two will be measured from now on against Joseph E. Levine's A Bridge Too Far, based on the late Cornelius Ryan's incisive best seller and produced on a stupendous scale, as if costly big-name stars were a dime a dozen (though Robert Redford reportedly earned at least $2,000,000 for several weeks' work; see page 92 for the inside story on a milestone in the making). Several real-life characters involved in one of the hairiest debacles in the history of modern warfare ar...