Battle of the Bulge (film)

Battle of the Bulge is a 1965 American widescreen epic war film produced in Spain, directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews and Charles Bronson. The feature was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and exhibited in 70mm Cinerama. Battle of the Bulge had its world premiere on December 16, 1965, the 21st anniversary of the titular battle, at the Pacific Cinerama Dome Theatre in Hollywood, California.

Military Intelligence officer and former policeman Lt. Col. Daniel Kiley Fonda and his pilot, Joe, are flying a reconnaissance mission over the Ardennes forest, spotting a German staff car. Under the ground in a subterranean lair, German Col. Martin Hessler Shaw, a fictional character loosely based on SSStandartenfhrer Jochen Peiper, is briefed by his superior, Gen. Kohler Werner Peters. Kohler points out a clock with a 50hour countdown, which is the time allotted for the operation, beyond which Germany has no resources for fullscale attack. At the same time German soldiers disguised as American troops, led by Lt. Schumacher Ty Hardin, are tasked with seizing vital bridges and sowing confusion behind the Allied lines.Meanwhile, Kiley returns to headquarters where he warns that the Germans are planning one more allout offensive. His superiors, Gen. Grey Robert Ryan and Col. Pritchard Dana Andrews, dismiss it out of hand all available intelligence points to Germany not having the resources and manpower to launch another attack. ........

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