Battle of the Bulge

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Battle of the Bulge (1965)

NR 12/16/1965 (US) Drama, History, War 2h 47m

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In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

Ken Annakin

Director
John Melson

Writer
Philip Yordan

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Milton Sperling

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Henry Fonda

Lt Col Kiley
Robert Shaw

Col Hessler
Robert Ryan

General Grey
Dana Andrews

Colonel Pritchard
George Montgomery

Sgt. Duquesne
Ty Hardin

Schumacher
Pier Angeli

Louise
Barbara Werle

Elena
Charles Bronson

Maj. Wolenski
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A review by lwpcolonel

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Written by lwpcolonel on January 14, 2018

This film is created out of composite characters, most notably Henry Fonda, as a Lt. Colonel in Intelligence and Robert Shaw, as a Panzer Brigade Commander supposedly just recalled from the Russian Front, where he was "losing the war there".

According to the official account, the part Robert Shaw fictitiously portrayed wasn't the Colonel Hessler he was titled as, but; Joachim Peiper, and the following is from the official account; "The 6th Panzer Army included the elite of the Waffen-SS, including four Panzer divisions and five infantry divisions in three corps. SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachi... read the rest.

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