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Dunkirk

Name: Dunkirk
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1958-03-20
Duration: 134 min
Rating: 6.824

★ 6,8 /10 (71 Votes)

1958 EN 134 min

Overview

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

Stream

Release date

20/03/1958

Votes

Popularity

2.0

Genres

Drama War

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

134 min

John Mills

Cpl Tubby Binns

Richard Attenborough

John Holden

Bernard Lee

Charles Foreman

Robert Urquhart

Mike

Ray Jackson

Barlow

Ronald Hines

Private Miles

Sean Barrett

Frankie

Roland Curram

Harper

Meredith Edwards

Dave Bellman

Michael Bates

Froome

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Rodney Diak

Pannet

Michael Shillo

Jouvet

Eddie Byrne

Commander (Tough's Yard)

Maxine Audley

Diana

Lionel Jeffries

Colonel (Medical Officer)

Victor Maddern

Merchant Seaman

Anthony Nicholls

Military Spokesman

No photo

Bud Flanagan

Himself

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Chesney Allen

Himself

Kenneth Cope

Lieutenant Lumpkin

Denys Graham

Fraser

Barry Foster

Don R

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Warwick Ashton

Battery Sergeant Major

Peter Halliday

Battery Major

John Welsh

Staff Colonel

Lloyd Lamble

Staff Colonel

Cyril Raymond

General The Viscount Gort V.C.

Nicholas Hannen

Vice Admiral Ramsay

Patricia Plunkett

Grace

Michael Gwynn

Commander (Sheerness)

Fred Griffiths

Old Sweat

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Dan Cressey

Joe

Christopher Rhodes

Sergeant on the beaches

Harry Landis

Dr. Levy

John Horsley

Padre

Patrick Allen

Sergeant on Parade Ground

Liz Fraser

Worker in Holden's Factory (uncredited)

Michael Brennan

Paddle Steamer Captain (uncredited)

Bernard Cribbins

Thirsty Sailor (uncredited)

John G. Heller

German Soldier (uncredited)

John Phillips

Boat Owner Spokesman (uncredited)

William Squire

Captain (uncredited)

Tim Turner

Officer (line of men in sea) (uncredited)

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Howard Lang

Chief - Sheerness Dockyard (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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It may be a phoney war to you, but it's not to all the blokes at sea. Never has been. Dunkirk is directed by Leslie Norman and adapted to screenplay by David Divine and W.P. Lipscomb. It stars John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart, Ray Jackson and Robert Hines. Music is by Malcolm Arnold and cinematography by Paul Beeson. "Dunkirk was a great defeat, and a great miracle. It proved, if it proved anything, that we were alone but undivided. No longer were there fighting men and civilians. There were only people. A nation had been made whole" I think it's safe to …

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This is an excellent war movie, especially considering it is from 1958. It has aged well. Today’s war movies are more visually impressive, of course, with the special effects that make it seem like you are witnessing the real thing. This version can’t match all that, but except for setting it up politically with newsreel clips and people discussing the “phony” war, this film shows the personal journey of Dunkirk. The home front, soldiers caught behind the rapidly shifting line of battle, and later on the masses of soldiers on the beaches waiting for the civilian “navy” who lent their boats and…

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