John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart, Ronald Hines, Meredith Edwards. Title from disc label. Based on the novels The big pick-up by Elleston Trevor and Dunkirk by Lt. Col. Ewan Butler and Major J.S. Bradford, M.B.E., M.C. Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. Wide screen (1.66:1). Bonus features: Dunkirk Operation Dynamo newsrell; Young Veteran Ealing Studios documentary (1940); interview with actor Sean Barrett; John Mills home movie footage.
Summary:
It is early May: the year 1940. In London, the civil population, lulled into an atmosphere of false security, goes about its business as usual. even the official war communiques merely report activity on the front. But Charles Foreman, war correspondent, knows better. As the war in France takes a turn for the worse, he signs on with the Merchant Navy and volunteers for the greatest mission ever mounted, the evacuation of Dunkirk.
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