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Programme Information

Wartime drama in which a small group of Royal Marines carry out a covert canoe raid on the docks of Bordeaux during World War II in a mission to destroy the blockade-busting Nazi ships.

Keywords:

Action, Drama, War, Historical, History, Based-on-True-Story, World War, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, WWII, WW2, World War 2

Additional Information:

(1955) (3 Star)

Cast:

José Ferrer	.... Major Stringer
Trevor Howard	.... Captain Thompson
Dora Bryan	.... Myrtie
Victor Maddern	.... Sergeant Craig
Anthony Newley	.... Marine Clarke
David Lodge	.... Marine Ruddock

Supporting Cast:

Peter Arne	.... Marine Stevens
Percy Herbert	.... Marine Lomas
Graham Stewart	.... Marine Booth
John Fabian	.... Marine Cooney
John Van Eyssen	.... Marine Bradley
Robert Desmond	.... Marine Todd
Walter Fitzgerald	.... Gestapo Commandant
Karel Stepanek	.... Assistant Gestapo Officer
Beatrice Campbell	.... Mrs. Ruddock

Directors:

José Ferrer

Writers:

Bryan Forbes
George Kent