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Release year: 1958

Storyline

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.

Top credits

Directors

Leslie Norman

Writers

Cast

John Mills — Corporal 'Tubby' Binns
Richard Attenborough — John Holden
Bernard Lee — Charles Foreman
Robert Urquhart — Private Mike Russell

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Did you know

• The last words uttered on-screen by the dying soldier played by Meredith Edwards are in the Welsh language, although they are barely audible. The lines were written in English originally, but Edwards argued that a Welshman who knew he was dying would want his last words to be in his native tongue. The director agreed, and Edwards spoke in Welsh.

• When the troop ship taking the platoon home is bombed and sunk in Dunkirk harbor, the scene of the ship sinking is taken from The Cruel Sea (1953), which depicts the sinking of H.M.S. "Compass Rose".

• The term "U-S" means 'un-serviceable' and is a British military term