Director: Jose Ferrer

Writers: Bryan Forbes; Richard Maibaum; George Kent

Music by: John Addison

Producer: Phil C. Samuel

Keywords: Action/Adventure, WWII

Royal Commandoes commence what seems to be a suicide mission upriver at Bordeaux in canoes ("cockleshells") to plant explosives on German warships. Romanticized depiction based on the real-life Operation Frankton, authorized 1942 by Lord Mountbatten. Good British war movie.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Beatrice Campbell	Actor	31-Jul-1922	10-May-1979	Last Holiday
Jose Ferrer	Actor	8-Jan-1909	26-Jan-1992	The Caine Mutiny
Percy Herbert	Actor	31-Jul-1920	6-Dec-1992	The Bridge on the River Kwai
Trevor Howard	Actor	29-Sep-1913	7-Jan-1988	Sons and Lovers
Christopher Lee	Actor	27-May-1922	7-Jun-2015	The Face of Fu Manchu
Anthony Newley	Actor	24-Sep-1931	14-Apr-1999	Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist
Karel Stepanek	Actor	29-Oct-1899	25-Dec-1980	Czech-English actor, played Germans
Sydney Tafler	Actor	31-Jul-1916	8-Nov-1979	The Lavender Hill Mob

CAST

Jose Ferrer	...   Maj. Stringer
Trevor Howard	...   Capt. Thompson
Dora Bryan	...   Myrtie
Victor Maddern	...   Sgt. Craig
Anthony Newley	...   Marine Clarke
David Lodge	...   Marine Ruddock
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
Beatrice Campbell	...   Mrs. Ruddock
Karel Stepanek	...   Assistant Gestapo Officer
Sydney Tafler	...   Policeman
Jacques Brunius	...   French Fisherman
Gladys Henson	...   Barmaid
Andrea Malandrinos	...   French Fisherman
Judith Furse	...   W.V.S. Woman
Christopher Lee	...   Submarine Commander
Patric Doonan	...   A Sailor

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