The Dam Busters (1955)
With Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney, Raymond Huntley, Laurence Naismith, Nigel Stock, Robert Shaw
Directed by Michael Anderson
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, and directed by Michael Anderson. Adapted by R. C. Sherriff from the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson, the film depicts the true story of Operation Chastise in which the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe dams in Nazi Germany with Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb.
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