Battle of the Bulge [Blu-ray]

Battle of the Bulge [Blu-ray]
by Ken Annakin

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Actor: Dana Andrews, George Montgomery, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Robert Shaw
Director: Ken Annakin
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Producer: Milton Sperling
Writer: Milton Sperling
Producer: Philip Yordan
Writer: Philip Yordan
Producer: Sidney Harmon
Writer: John Melson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 167 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Battle of the Bulge [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: 2 stars out of 4
Summary: 2 Stars

The Bottom Line:

Turgid, overlong, simplistic, and certainly not historically accurate, Battle of the Bulge is a chore to watch and definitely not a rewarding one--there are very few reasons to see it but a whole host of reasons why not to.

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Summary of Battle of the Bulge [Blu-ray]

Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw and Robert Ryan in the spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign. Year: 1965

The German offensive in December 1944 became the basis for this all-star Hollywood take on the Battle of the Bulge. Henry Fonda is an officer who predicts the assault, Robert Ryan and Dana Andrews are Army brass skeptical of his intuitions, and Robert Shaw (his hair dyed yellow and his eyes glinting with malice) is a German officer leading the tank attack. Shaw is certainly the most compelling thing about the film, especially in his philosophical debates with ambivalent underling Hans Christian Blech. Elsewhere, the movie jumps around to sidebar stories (cowardly James MacArthur becomes a leader, wheeler-dealer Telly Savalas falls in love) while messing around with the historical facts of the battle. There are interesting episodes, such as the Malmedy massacre of American POWs and the Germans' use of English-speaking spies, but overall Battle of the Bulge has the feeling of having been patched together from different scripts. On the physical level the movie comes up short, with the Spanish locations rarely suggesting the wintry misery of the battle, and the use of models and studio sets highly inadequate. A number of war films from this era are compelling on their own terms, but in the wake of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, this one looks antique. --Robert Horton

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