The dam busters
By: Associated British Picture Corporation Limited presents ; screenplay by R.C. Sherriff ; directed by Michael Anderson
Contributors: Todd, Richard, 1919-2009, actor; Redgrave, Michael, actor; Jeans, Ursula, 1906-1973, actor; Sydney, Basil, 1894-1968, actor; Barr, Patrick, actor; Clark, Ernest, 1912-1994, actor; Farr, Derek, 1912-1986, actor; Hillier, Erwin, 1911-2005, director of photography; Best, Richard, 1916-2004, editor of moving image work; Lucas, Leighton, 1903-1982, composer (expression); Levy, Louis, 1894-1957, musical director; Brickhill, Paul; Gibson, Guy; Associated British Picture Corporation; Inspired Distribution
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Operation Chastise, 1943; British Aerial operations; Drama; Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617
Description: "Captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the centre of Nazi Germany's industrial complex ... Split into two distinct sections, the film deals first with the fraught, but ultimately successful development of a new weapon by Dr. Barnes N. Wallis. The second and pacier section deals with the mission itself during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams, and its associated costs for the enemy and the British airmen."--Container.
Notes: Based on Paul Brickhill's book and on wing commander Guy Gibson's account, "Enemy coast ahead."

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.

Director of photography, Erwin Hillier ; editor, Richard Best ; music score by Leighton Lucas ; musical director, Louis Levy.

Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney, Patrick Barr, Ernest Clark, Derek Farr.

Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, all regions.