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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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 | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, George Montgomery | | Director: | Ken Annakin | | Format: | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | English, German | | Subtitle: | English, Spanish, French | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Warner Home Video | | Run Time: | 167 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | May 03, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 168 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 As Bad As Bid Budget Filmmaking Gets Aug 17, 2010
The 60's and 70's was a breeding ground for High budget, war epic films. Many of these films released were reasonably accurate, entertaining, and respectful to the subject matter. Among the best include Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Lawrence of Arabia, Tora! Tora! Tora! and Patton. These great war films get their accolades, and they deserve them rather well. However, one big dinosaur of a film paled in comparison to all of these war epics, the 1965 stinker The Battle of the Bulge. An inaccurate, insulting, trite, and boring war epic, it's easily one of the worst, most tedious war films out there. Especially given how long the movie is! Two and a Half hours for this? Yep.
The Battle of the Bulge getting star treatment is always a good thing, but unfortunately, we don't get that here. Battle of the Bulge is inaccurate with it's historical details, and even portraying the film in, a desert? Huh?
The ugly Technicolor (the breeding ground for another terrible war film, D-Day The Sixth of June) visuals are just icing on the cake for this film's creaky, tepid presentation. Plus, as someone else mentioned, this film more often than not seems to ape adventure films, turning the bloody and grim battle into some kind of fun (hokey) entertainment, kind of like John Wayne's equally annoying The Alamo. Even more unacceptable is how boring and dated these scenes are. None of it's fun. Extremely clunky in execution, it's baffling at how boring and laughable it is. And battle scenes? Forget it. There extremely dated and clunky as well. Really, it fails on this front, so don't even bother.
Skip this one. I know it's been said before, but Band of Brothers and Battleground trounce this film and leave this film in the dust where it belongs. Nothing stands out, and nothing is interesting on display in this lame dinosaur of a film. Leave it to rot with other forgettable movies at Office Max (I actually saw it there!).
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Battle of the Bulge on Blue-ray Jul 28, 2010
Ok,for me it does not get much better than this! My Dad took me to see this back in 1965 when it came out.Over the years I have seen it on network tv,cable tv ,and thru VHS format! I was not all that picky about how super clear a movie could be until We got a DVD player about 8 years ago!Than I was a bit picky! Last Christmas we got a 52 inch Samsung Flatscreen 1080p for the family.Bestbuy threw in a free Blueray player along with it! So now I can never go back,I am having a field day!And yes I have gotten picky! We have 3 DVD Players ,one run of the mill! One that will play anything from all regions! and than the Blueray!
That being all said, I find the Battle of the Bulge in Blue-ray is outstanding!!It comes thru very clear and crisp!It looks like it was made this year! Everything really stands out!The sound is great too as is the soundtrack!If you want something that is 100% correct with History than you better see another version(like Battleground -1949) of this story!I will say this tho, regarding the movie being real,They use 80 real and at that time active tanks and 5000 extras out of the Spanish army to stand for most of the American and German troops!Nowdays CGI is used a bit too much!A good example is TROY with Brad Pitt and Eric Bana,it was a good movie but it could have been a great movie with less CGI and more extras!
I dont let the fact that the Battle of the Bulge is not 100% correct with history bug me when it comes down to it, as this flick just looks so good,has great action and a great cast! Robert Shaw as Col.Hessler, Henry Fonda as Kiley,Robert Ryan as Gen.Grey,Dana Andrews as an officer who gets it all wrong about the coming German attack and than later is a big enought man to tell Kiley he was wrong!,Telly Savalas as Guffy, The Head of a Sherman tank crew,Charles Bronson as an officer on the very front of the lines who later fights a holding action and stands up for his men when they are pows!,James MacArthur as an officer who does a 180 in how he handles his part in the battle due to what he went thru with his Sgt Duguesne played by George Montgomery,Ty Harden plays Lt .Schumacher ,a leader of a team of Germans who had lived in the U.S.A. but came back to fight for the fatherland posing as U.S. troops,and many more!
This film has somethings in common with a good western made 3 years later called Custer of the West-- 1. They are both made with the Cinerama process and I feel a Big screen TV in conjuction with a Blue-ray Player helps one still enjoy this process up to a point!2. They have a lot of the same cast.In Custer of the West Robert Shaw has the lead role as Custer,Ty Harden is Reno and Robert Ryan plays a deserter!
Thought that was interesting to point out!Some other things that I feel were realy good on the Battle of the Bulge were 1.In the beginning of the movie were Col Hessler is showed all the dreams and ideas some of the German high command have along with some tanks and fresh troops to still try and win the war!2. The train scene 3. The first battle were the Americans were caught way off guard!. 4. The Battle scene were a large amount of German tanks are lined up with ground troops pounding away at the town they are attacking and than moving in!5. Col Hessler showing his commanding officer an American cake and telling him that things like that getting to the troops makes them feel they can do any thing! He wants to take the town he is spending time attacking so as to brake American moral!5.The final battle, There is a computer game called Beyond Overlord that has this battle along with many others!
This movie has a running time of 169 mins.I hear a fair amount of people sometimes knock any movie that runs pass 2 hours! I for one, like em the longer the better as long as they are well made!This movie has some good extras like The filming of the Battle of the Bulge,History Recreated and others. Its Directed by the same Director who did The Longest Day Ken Annakin.Hans Christian Blech has a good part as an aide to Col,Hessler!The movie has extra music before the start,during an intermission phase and at the conclusion!By the way, that one reviewer has it wrong about Henry Fonda not using his gun,In the first battle He is shooting a German tank crew member!!
All in all I would have to put this movie in my top ten of World War 2 movies of all time!! I would say this movie is to be very much recommended !!
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 most historically inaccurate film ever made Jul 13, 2010
Nothing in this film has anything to do with the Battle of the Bulge or real WWII combat. It is so terribly wrong in every way that I think it must be a spoof like "Scary Movie" is of horror films. The director can't be that incompetent can he? Did Henry Fonda and the other stars, or their agents, or their pets, read the script? And not only is it bad it is pretentious and dreadfully long.
 Who knew we almost lost the war? Jul 10, 2010
It's been a while since I've watched this movie due to the length (almost 3 hours) so this review is based on memory. This is a historical (as historical as hollywood gets anyway) movie based on the last days of WWI. The Germans were almost beat and the war was coming to a close so complacency set in with the allied forces. Only one man (Henry Fonda) was saying that the Germans will attack. In fact, the Germans were regrouping and had devised a plan to win the war. They had developed tanks that could withstand allied bombardment but only had enough resorces for a sixty hour campaign. The plan: to infiltrate and divide the allied forces. When put into motion, the plan was having success, driving the allies back as they were unprepared and unequiped to handle the new tanks. Henry Fonda finally figures out thier weak spots, the arigance of the German commander and fuel, and sets their own campaign in motion. This is a pretty good movie (and a bit scarey considering what's going on today) but I was a little disappointed in Henry Fonda's roll. You'd think he would have a more active roll, but he didn't do too much of anything. He's in quite a bit of the movie but he doesn't even had a gun and has to borrow one from Charles Bronson for a short period (though I don't recall him firing it). If you're looking for a good Henry Fonda movie, this isn't it. However, if you're looking for a good movie about stategy, I'd highly recomment this one.
For those wondering about the quality, the Blu-Ray transfer is superb. The scenes are very sharp and clean.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
blu ray looks awesome. Jun 20, 2010
This movie has never looked better, it looks rather cleaned up and shines on blu ray. The acting is top notch for sure with major actors laying down good performances. Of course this is a 1960's war movie in which people fly apart or the war scenes look like you could do with cgi effects and other makeup techniques developed in the 1970's. They use at the time modern tanks too but it is the spirit of the battle they are out to capture here and they do that in spite of it being rather bloodless. In truth war is about blown out guts and blood everywhere. this is like a idealized war , much cleaner and that's why it was such a hit at the time. So I don't think you can criticize this movie on that regard because it was made during a different era of movie making. The blu ray version is the best you will ever see of this movie and in spite of being a clean war movie it's still good and it gives you a feeling at least of how bad the battle was in reality. Most of the cast is now gone but with great actors like Henry Fonda, robert shaw, dana andrews, robert ryan, telly savalas, and others you get to see them contribute to this good war movie from a premodern effects era.
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