It's not a particulary good start when your opening narration is wrong.ĭespite this, perhaps the most accurate part of the movie are the early scenes. The narrator also fails to mention that General Omar Bradley was in overall command of the US army group involved in the Battle of the Bulge. This was patently false because the 8th army was in Italy in December 1944.
The narrator claims that the British Field Marshal Montgomery was stationed to the north of the Ardennes with his 8th army. The film opens with a narrator setting the scene but there are some inaccuracies in the narration. The movie was controversial at the time played loose with history. This was the last German offensive of the war. The Germans did make rapid gains and inflicted heavy casualties on the Americans, but the US army fought back and eventually drove them back into Germany. This was to cut the Allied forces in two and Hitler hoped this would force the Americans and British to negotiate. This was an attempt by the Germans to seize the Ardennes region in Belgium and then to capture the Port of Antwerp. The movie is based on the Ardennes Offensive or the Battle of the Bulge. The motion picture focuses on one German SS panzer unit and an American division.
In the movie, the director tried to squeeze a series of battles that took place over three weeks into three hours and tried to give both the German and the American perspective. The movie premiered with typical Tinseltown glitz and glamor at the Pacific Cinerama Dome Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Among the stars in the Battle of the Bulge are Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Henry Fond, Robert Shaw, George Montgomery, and Robert Ryan. In many ways, the motion picture was a typical Hollywood epic with an all-star cast. Battle of the Bulge was filmed in Spain and had the support of the government of the dictator Franco. He refused to hire several directors for the film because he wanted someone he could control. The movie was produced by the legendary Hollywood mogul Jack Warner Jr. The original screenplay was based on the work of John Melson, but his original work was rewritten by other screenwriters. The director of the movie was Ken Annakin and it was released on the 21st anniversary of the battle in 1965. The ‘Battle of the Bulge’ is an enduringly popular American war movie.
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