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German Aide: Excuse me for interrupting, but ... British paratroopers have apparently landed. Three kilometers from here.

Field Marshal Model: Why should they do that? There's nothing valuable here. I! I am valuable here! They have all come to capture me!

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John Addison, the film's composer, actually served as a tank officer in XXX Corps during World War 2. See more...

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A Bridge Too Far (1977) - 9 mistakes

Directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Michael Caine, Sean Connery (add more)

Genres: Action, Drama, History, War

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Continuity: In a scene in a town on the rooftops as the British fight the Nazis, we see that the townsfolk were truly ahead of their times as they nearly all have television antennas.

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Continuity: There is a close-up of a parachutist's boot as he leaves the aircraft. It is a DMS boot. DMS boots were not issued to the army until much, much later. Late sixties, early seventies as I recall.

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Continuity: After the scene where a British soldier is killed trying to recover supplies, a C-47 is seen crashing with a smoking engine. After the crash, look carefully at the explosion and you can see the airplane winging away.

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Continuity: During the fighting in Arnhem, the man and his son are piling up bodies. They pick up a dead girl and lay her on the pile with her legs hanging off to the right. The father immediately goes to help some other people, the son screams "Father!" and the father rushes over to his dead son. In the background, the dead girl's legs are now hanging off to the left.

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Continuity: When they're building the Bailey bridge to replace the destroyed Son bridge, work continues into the night. Cut to scene of a soldier waiting for them to complete the bridge - in daylight. Cut back to the continuing work on the bridge - it's dark again.

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Factual error: The Waffen SS soldiers throughout the movie are wearing the wrong uniforms. By 1944, most Waffen SS soldiers should be wearing half or full camouflage. Their helmets also shouldn't have the swastika on it, and many should also have been camouflaged.

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Factual error: The German tanks in the film are Leopard 1 tanks, which were made about 20 years later. Although the turret and the cannon are changed and there are different skirts, the Leopard is very recognizable by it's specific exhaust grill and back.

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Factual error: When the tank corps is shown before leaving, the village is refered to as Leopoldsville. It was in fact the Belgian village of Leopoldsburg. It's shown on the map as Bourg Leopold (which is the correct French name). Leopoldville was the capital of the Belgian Congo which is now called Kinshasa.

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Factual error: In many of the scenes, German Mauser rifles do not have cleaning rods. However, judging from many archive footages, almost all Mauser rifles used by the Germans during World War II had cleaning rods attached. Many weapons dealers for some reason sell World War II surplus rifles without cleaning rods, hence why they're missing. Still a mistake though...

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