The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
The Cockleshell Heroes is a 1955 film with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, David Lodge and José Ferrer, who also directed. Set during the Second World War, it is a fictionalised account of Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bordeaux Harbour. It was the first Warwick Film to be filmed in CinemaScope.
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Cast:
- Peter Arne
- Jacques B. Brunius
- Dora Bryan
- Beatrice Campbell
- Christopher Lee had a small role
- Robert Desmond
- Patric Doonan
- John Fabian
- Walter Fitzgerald
- Judith Furse
- Gladys Henson
- Percy Herbert
- Trevor Howard
- José Ferrer
- Karel Štěpánek
- Sam Kydd
- David Lodge
- Victor Maddern
- Andreas Malandrinos
- Anthony Newley
- Graham Stewart
- Sydney Tafler
- John Van Eyssen