Battle of the Bulge
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.
Cast
Henry Fonda
as Lt Col Kiley
Robert Shaw
as Col Hessler
Robert Ryan
as General Grey
Dana Andrews
as Colonel Pritchard
Telly Savalas
as Sgt. Guffy
George Montgomery
as Sgt. Duquesne
Ty Hardin
as Schumacher
Pier Angeli
as Louise
Barbara Werle
as Elena
Charles Bronson
as Maj. Wolenski
Reviews
lwpcolonel
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 ...
Wuchak
***Nazi Germany’s last gasp*** “Battle of the Bulge” (1965) depicts the last major German offensive on the Western Front from December 16 – January 25, 1944-1945. The action takes place at the intersection of Belgium, Germany, France and Luxembourg. American forces were thoroughly surprised by th...
CinemaSerf
It's far too long this, but otherwise isn't an half-bad wartime adventure that shows off Robert Shaw's ability to play a baddie with aplomb. He's "Col. Hessler", the commander of a Panzer tank division at a crucial stage towards the end of the war. With the Allies pressing every advantage, he must f...
