The Dam Busters

• 6.8 Drama
• 1955-05-16
• 124 minutes mins

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'.

Starring:

Richard Todd (Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.) Michael Redgrave (Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.) Ursula Jeans (Mrs. Wallis) Basil Sydney (Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.) Patrick Barr (Captain Joseph (Mutt) Summers, C.B.E.) Ernest Clark (Air Vice-Marshal The Hon. Ralph Cochrane G.B.E., K.C.B., A.F.C.) Derek Farr (Group Captain J. N. H. Whitworth, D.S.O., D.F.C.) Charles Carson (Doctor) Stanley Van Beers (Sir David Pye, C.B., F.R.S.) Colin Tapley (Doctor W.H. Glanville, C.B., C.B.E.)

Director:

Michael Anderson

Writer:

R.C. Sherriff