Certainly, everything about 'Bulge' is B-I-G. Ultimately, it doesn't improve the picture much, however fantastic the restoration. They not only reconstructed the original 167-minute version of the film, but also restored its glorious Cinerama compositions. Though the film's intentions are good - illustrating both sides of the incident and analyzing how the Americans and the Nazis were pulled into the pivotal conflict - it makes for lousy drama.Īvailable for years only in horribly pan-and-scanned, edited versions, Warner finally restored 'The Battle of the Bulge' in 2005 for its DVD release. Inferior to such efforts as Richard Attenborough's classic 'A Bridge too Far,' 1992's 'A Midnight Clear,' and especially the HBO mini-series 'Band of Brothers,' 'Battle of the Bulge' is an incessantly talky, inert picture. Not the first (nor the last) Hollywood epic to use the famous incident as the basis for a fictionalized action-adventure film, 1965's 'The Battle of the Bulge' may unfortunately be the weakest. In what eventually became one of the bloodiest conflicts experienced by the American forces, the battle also became one of the key conflicts leading up to the final months of WWII and would later be referred to as "The Battle of the Bulge." On December 16, 1944, German tanks broke through an Allied front in the Belgian Ardennes, commencing a battle that would last for nearly 30 days. Warned of the impending invasion, Hitler ordered an all-out counteroffensive to thwart the plan using a covert Panzer division, unbeknownst to the Americans. In the early winter of 1944, the Allied Forces stood ready to invade Germany at the coming of the New Year.
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