Word: arnhem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future looked bleak for Roosje, or Little Rose. The latest member of the famed open-air chimpanzee colony at The Netherlands' Burgers Dierenpark, near Arnhem, she had been born to a handicapped mother who could not care...
...Deventer, Holland, on location with Producer Joseph E. Levine's $25 million war movie A Bridge Too Far. "It was completely real, everything grindingly, crushingly normal - everything except the bullets," reported Duncan after taking pictures of Actor Robert Redford and cast recreating the 1944 Battle of Arnhem. A good assignment, then? "The greatest," answered Duncan, "because after the day's work, the dead and wounded got up, hosed themselves off and went home. Beautiful...
...boom in war movies-or so it seems from the army of actors now before the camera. After providing cinematic sea battles in Midway earlier this summer, film makers are currently at work on A Bridge Too Far, Producer Joseph E. Levine's version of the battle of Arnhem in World War II, and Apocalypse Now, Director Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Viet Nam. Last week MacArthur, Hollywood's newest bombs-and-bullets epic, began production, with Gregory Peck starring as the general who made a famous return to the Philippines in 1944-and an equally...
...Arnhem Bridge. El Alamein epitomized Montgomery's battlefield style: a long, careful buildup of matériel superiority followed by a massive frontal attack with secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat...
Later Montgomery admitted that he made "a bad mistake at Arnhem." At the time, however, he blamed the disaster on Eisenhower, charging that the American commander had failed to provide Monty's forces with enough matériel. Indeed, throughout the war Montgomery fought an acrimonious verbal battle against overall American command of the Allied armies. This war within a war became so heated that at one point Eisenhower threatened to force Montgomery's removal. Said Monty later: "Ike had simply no experience for the job. As a field commander he was very...