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The Dam Busters is a British film of genre Drama directed by Michael Anderson released in USA on 4 october 1955 with Richard Todd

The Dam Busters (1955)

The Dam Busters
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Released in USA 4 october 1955
Length 2h4
Directed by
Genres Drama,    War,    Thriller,    Documentary,    Action,    Historical
Rating73% 3.6959253.6959253.6959253.6959253.695925

The Dam Busters (1955) is a British Second World War war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd. It was directed by Michael Anderson. The film recreates the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany with Barnes Wallis's "bouncing bomb".

The film was based on the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson. The film's reflective last minutes convey the poignant mix of emotions felt by the characters – triumph over striking a successful blow against the enemy's industrial base is greatly tempered by the sobering knowledge that many died in the process of delivering it.
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Synopsis

In the early years of the Second World War, aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis is struggling to develop a means of attacking Germany's dams in the hope of crippling German heavy industry. Working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, as well as doing his own job at Vickers, he works feverishly to make practical his theory of a bouncing bomb which would skip over the water to avoid protective torpedo nets. When it came into contact with the dam, it would sink before exploding, making it much more destructive.
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Actors

Richard Todd

(Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.)
Michael Redgrave

(Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.)
Ursula Jeans

(Mrs. Wallis)
Basil Sydney

(Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.)
Patrick Barr

(Captain Joseph (Mutt) Summers, C.B.E.)
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