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TIL During filming of "A Bridge Too Far" (1977) the Dutch authorities would only shut down Nijmegen Bridge to film for 1 hour during a Sunday. The crew had to get the footage in that hour or else pay $125,000 a day to keep Robert Redford on set; hence it became known as the "Million Dollar Hour".

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