Title |
Dunkirk. |
Published |
Australia : Distributed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©1985 |
Physical description |
1 DVD-video (130 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 12 cm. |
Series |
Classics remastered |
General note |
Catalogued from container. |
Universal Sony Pictures : DJ1332. |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. |
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. |
Special features: Interview with actor Sean Barrett -- Dunkirk Operation Dynamo newsreel -- Young Veteran Ealing short -- John Mills home movie footage -- Behind the scenes stills gallery. |
Credits note |
Screenplay, David Divine, W.P. Lipscomb ; director, Leslie Norman. |
Performer note |
John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart, Sean Barrett, Victor Maddern, Maxine Audley, Ray Jackson, Ronald Hines, Roland Curram, Meredith Edwards, Michael Bates, Rodney Diak, Michael Shillo, Eddie Byrne, Lionel Jeffries. |
Summary |
A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany. Two stories in one - an easygoing 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 are less willing. |
Subject |
Butler, Ewan -- Film adaptations |
Bradford, J. Selby -- Film adaptations |
Trevor, Elleston, -- 1920-Film adaptations |
Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940 -- Drama |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama |
Films adaptations |
War films |
Historical films |
Action and adventure films |
Feature films |
Fiction films |
Dunkerque (France) -- Drama |
Additional author |
Norman, Les film director. |
Divine, David, 1904-1987 writer. |
Lipscomb, W. P. 1887-1957, (William Percy) writer. |
Mills, John, 1908-2005 actor. |
Attenborough, Richard actor. |
Lee, Bernard, 1908-1981 actor. |
Urquhart, Robert, 1921-1995 actor. |
Butler, Ewan author. |
Bradford, J. Selby author. |
Trevor, Elleston, 1920- |