How could anyone ever know of the price paid by soldiers in terror, agony, and bloodshed if they'd never been to places like Normandy, Bastogne, or Haguenau? Battle of the Bulge or Battle of the Ardennes was the last German offensive on the Western Front during World War II, an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory...
The name "Battle of the Bulge" was appropriated from Winston Churchill's optimistic description, in May 1940, of the resistance that he mistakenly supposed was being offered to the German's breakthrough in that area just before the Anglo-French collapse; the Germans were in fact overwhelmingly successful The "bulge" refers to the wedge that they drove into the Allies lines...
Ken Annakin's film forgets those who fought and died in the real 'Bulge'. The Ardennes offensive never occurred like it was related in the film...
The movie takes us to December 1944, where British and American armies are in the threshold of victory Stretched across half of Europe, the Allies gathered themselves for the final assault on Germany To the north stood Montgomery's Eight Army, to the south, Patton's Third, in the center, a few battle-weary American divisions rested in a quiet sector To them, the war seemed already won But for Col. Kiley (Henry Fonda) the German army, facing the Allies, is still an undefeated enemy Kiley still believes that the Germans are planning one last major offensive His superiors, Gen. Gray (Robert Ryan) and Col. Pritchard (Dana Andrews), are doubtful of a German move
Col. Hessler (Robert Shaw) leads the full-scale attack in a huge wave of tanks, eliminating everything in its way His new 70-ton King Tiger tank has two-and-a-half times the firepower and double the armor of the American tanks
Filmed in Cinerama, the motion picture is a bloody war spectacle, quite literate and handsome but too noisy and with emphasis on strategy rather than character
The name "Battle of the Bulge" was appropriated from Winston Churchill's optimistic description, in May 1940, of the resistance that he mistakenly supposed was being offered to the German's breakthrough in that area just before the Anglo-French collapse; the Germans were in fact overwhelmingly successful The "bulge" refers to the wedge that they drove into the Allies lines...
Ken Annakin's film forgets those who fought and died in the real 'Bulge'. The Ardennes offensive never occurred like it was related in the film...
The movie takes us to December 1944, where British and American armies are in the threshold of victory Stretched across half of Europe, the Allies gathered themselves for the final assault on Germany To the north stood Montgomery's Eight Army, to the south, Patton's Third, in the center, a few battle-weary American divisions rested in a quiet sector To them, the war seemed already won But for Col. Kiley (Henry Fonda) the German army, facing the Allies, is still an undefeated enemy Kiley still believes that the Germans are planning one last major offensive His superiors, Gen. Gray (Robert Ryan) and Col. Pritchard (Dana Andrews), are doubtful of a German move
Col. Hessler (Robert Shaw) leads the full-scale attack in a huge wave of tanks, eliminating everything in its way His new 70-ton King Tiger tank has two-and-a-half times the firepower and double the armor of the American tanks
Filmed in Cinerama, the motion picture is a bloody war spectacle, quite literate and handsome but too noisy and with emphasis on strategy rather than character