Cracking film,and if you know the course of the battle,pretty well accurate,to a point. Names and units are changed but the basics are there.Yes,from memory the bridge did blow up in the face of the GIs but also suffered other poundings mostly from the germans after the allied bridgehead was already across,everything from jet bombers to brandenburg frogmen .
The most obvious "fact" about the film is that it was shot while the revolotion was unfolding in Prague(those german HQ scenes Im sure are filmed in whats now the Royal castle,those big wrought iron gates are in famous footage of hitler arriving in Prague. Also the film had to be rushed to a conclusion as the cast,crew and tanks etc fled in the face of the invading Soviet and Warsaw pact forces sent by Moscow.
And the theme tune gets my vote as best ever war film music
