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Release year: 1958

Storyline

A group of fighters of the Polish resistance movement go on a mission to destroy the German V-1 'Flying Bomb' at Peenemünde and cripple the German war effort during World War II.

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Directors

Vernon Sewell

Writers

Cast

Michael Rennie — Stefan
Patricia Medina — Zofia
Milly Vitale — Anna
David Knight — Tadek

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Did you know

• One of the very few post-World War II internationally-released British movies that was not made at the more familiar English studios of Pinewood, Shepperton, Elstree or Ealing (see also Merton Park studios). This movie was made at the little-known Brighton Studios, St. Nicholas Road, Brighton, Sussex, and on location at nearby Shoreham-on-Sea. The studio closed down in the mid-1960s and the area converted into flats.

• Opening Credits: Extract from Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Statement, July 6th 1944. "During the early months of 1943 reports were received through many and varied Intelligence sources that the Germans were developing a weapon with which they proposed to bomb London".

• Closing narration: The flying bomb attack on Britain began on June 13th, 1944. Well prepared plans were immediately put into operation. Of the 11,000 bombs launched, only 2,000 reached London. Had Hitler's original plan been fulfilled London would without doubt been completely destroyed. Further, had the flying bomb campaign been launched six months earlier, well as General Eisenhower had written, our invasion of Europe would have proved difficult, if not impossible.

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