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Director Michael Anderson
Runtime 2h 4m · NR
Genres Drama · History · War
Film The Dam Busters 1955 · NR· 2h 4m· Drama· History· War
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
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Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. Michael Redgrave as Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. Ursula Jeans as Mrs. Wallis Basil Sydney as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C. Patrick Barr as Captain Joseph (Mutt) Summers, C.B.E. Ernest Clark as Air Vice-Marshal The Hon. Ralph Cochrane G.B.E., K.C.B., A.F.C. Derek Farr as Group Captain J. N. H. Whitworth, D.S.O., D.F.C. Charles Carson as Doctor Stanley Van Beers as Sir David Pye, C.B., F.R.S. Colin Tapley as Doctor W.H. Glanville, C.B., C.B.E. Frederick Leister as Committee Member Eric Messiter as Committee Member Laidman Browne as Committee Member Raymond Huntley as Official, National Physical Laboratory Hugh Manning as Official, Ministry of Aircraft Production Edwin Styles as Observer at Trials Hugh Moxey as Observer at Trials Anthony Shaw as R.A.F. Officer at Trials Laurence Naismith as Farmer Harold Siddons as Group Signals Officer Frank Phillips as BBC Announcer Brewster Mason as Flt / Lt. R. D. Trevor-Roper, D.F.C., D.F.M. Tony Doonan as Flt / Lt. R. E. G. Hutchison, D.F.C. Nigel Stock as Flying / Off. F. M. Spafford, D.F.C., D.F.M. Brian Nissen as Flt / Lt. A. T. Taerum, D.F.C. Robert Shaw as Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M. Peter Assinder as Plt/Off. G. A. Deering, D.F.C. Richard Leech as Squadron Leader H. M. Young, D.F.C. Richard Thorp as Squadron Leader H. E. Maudslay, D.F.C. John Fraser as Flight Lieutenant J. V. Hopgood, D.F.C. Key Crew
Full cast & crew (30 cast · 28 crew)
Details Runtime 2h 4m · NR
Status Released
Studios Associated British Picture Corporation
Languages English
Countries United Kingdom
Rating 6.9/10 · 160 votes
Original language en
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