𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡, 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙑𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙣 & 𝘽𝙚𝙣 𝙂𝙖𝙯𝙯𝙖𝙧𝙖💥💥 As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen? In the last days of World War II, the Allies look for a bridge still left standing across the Rhine, in order to launch an assault on the center of Germany. The last bridge which meets both sides' criteria's at Remagen, and both sides race to reach it first, but for very different purposes. The film opens with the United States Army failing to capture the still-intact Oberkassel railway bridge. Lieutenant Hartman (George Segal) is an experienced combat team leader who is becoming weary of the war in Europe. After he is promoted to company commander following the reckless death of the previous officer, Hartman is ordered to advance to the Rhine River at Remagen, where he is promised a rest for his men. At the same time, Major Paul Kreuger (Robert Vaughn) of the German Army is assigned to destroy the Remagen bridge by his friend and superior, Colonel General von Brock (Peter van Eyck), who has been given a written order to do it immediately. The general appeals to Kreuger's sense of honor, giving him a verbal command to defend the bridge for as long as possible, to allow the German 15th Army, trapped on the west bank of the river, to escape.
Movie Trivia
Filming in Czechoslovakia was interrupted by the Soviet invasion of August 1968. Cast and crew were taken to safety in a convoy of 28 taxis, except for Robert Logan, who stayed behind with film gear in order to capture the invasion on film and photo. According to the book "Bill Collins Presents The Golden Years of Hollywood", a half-replica of the bridge was built near Castelgandolfo, the Pope's summer residence south of Rome, and the film was completed in Hamburg (Germany) and various Italian locations. In 2007, BBC Radio aired "Solo Behind The Iron Curtain" a drama based on the invasion, starring Robert Vaughn as himself.
Some of the jeeps have a vertical bar on the front. This was to cut fine wires set between two trees by the enemy to decapitate the soldiers.
The producers were granted the right to blow up large parts of the town of Most, but they decided not to blow up the local Communist party headquarters building. Soviet forces were already preparing to invade Czechoslovakia at the time, and the producers didn't want to offend the soon-to-be-arriving Russians.
The tanks used by the Americans in the film were M24 Chaffee light tanks. They stood in for five of the newest heavy-duty T26E3 Pershing tanks manned by Company A of the 24th Tank Battalion, although only four were operational on 7 March. The other two platoons were each equipped with five M4A3 Sherman tanks. The command unit consisted of three more Sherman tanks. The Pershings were too heavy for the bridge and were ferried across the river five days after the bridge was captured.
One of the first films to be shot behind the Iron Curtain. Czechoslovakia was seen by Russia as becoming too liberal in its values, and in attempting to justify the forthcoming invasion by the USSR, Soviet agents spread the rumor that the American soldiers in the film were real. Most of them, in fact, were played by Czech students. Pictures of stored movie props were published as "proof" of weapons shipments from the US to arm local "reactionaries". It was even reported that American tanks were rolling through the streets and occupying the towns.
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