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Anderson was impressed by the resemblance and Redgrave confirmed to Anderson that Shaw was an actor. The film was Shaw's first major film role. George Baker played Flt Lt Maltby. Charles Foster, nephew of Dambuster pilot David Maltby, said his family formed a bond with Baker. Patrick McGoohan had a bit part as a security guard, standing guard outside the briefing room. He delivered the line—"Sorry, old boy, it's secret—you can't go in. Now, c'mon, hop it!", which was cut from some prints of the film. McGoohan and Nigel Stock, a co-star in the film, both played

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as accurate as possible. Anderson cast actors who resembled their real-life counterparts. Richard Todd had a striking physical resemblance to Guy Gibson. Makeup was used to make Michael Redgrave resemble Barnes Wallis. Baker stated that he was chosen for the part due to his physical similarity to Maltby.

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Richard Todd described filming the final scene with Michael Redgrave, where Gibson says he has to write letters, saying that as he walked away from the camera he was quietly weeping. He had his own experience of letter writing. He also said that the dog, also named Nigger, refused to go near the spot

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to write the script. Bomber Command and Barnes Wallis were reluctant to reveal secrets to a Hollywood studio and the script was disliked by them. By the late 1940s, rumours were that Hollywood were developing a project on the Dam Busters raid and Sir Michael Balcon was in discussion to make a film of

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and Windermere exhilarating and a welcome change from their normal high level solo Canberra sorties. While filming on one of the first days with the Lancasters, a Lancaster's tail wheel caught the roof of a nearby hanger, to the chagrin of an control tower officer. The Mosquito in the film was flown

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Real-life participants advised Anderson on the events; the RAF gave their blessing to the production, and Group Captain Charles Whitworth became technical advisor and gave Anderson all the support he needed. Barnes Wallis read the script too and gave his full approval, wanting to ensure the film was

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said he still thought Jackson will eventually make the film, citing Jackson's passion for aviation. Jackson said, "There is only a limited span I can abide, of people driving me nuts asking me when I'm going to do that project. So I'll have to do it. I want to, actually, it's one of the truly great

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At the time the film was made, certain aspects of Upkeep were still held classified, so the actual test footage was censored to hide any details of the test bombs (a black dot was superimposed over the bomb on each frame), and the dummy bombs carried by the Lancasters were almost spherical but with

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The film featured several actors who would go on to be stars of cinema and TV. Robert Shaw was featured as Gibson's engineer Flt Sgt Pulford. Anderson was struggling to find an actor who psychically resembled Pulford until he went to lunch with Redgrave and Shaw, who was one of his theatre friends;

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dams are breached, causing catastrophic flooding. Wallis is deeply affected by the loss of the crewmen, but Gibson stresses the squadron knew the risks they were facing but they went in regardless. Wallis asks if Gibson will get some sleep; Gibson says that he has to write letters first to the dead

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said that he was repeatedly asked whether it is an embarrassment to acknowledge Nigger's name, and stated that "a historian's answer must be: no more than the fact that our ancestors hanged sheep-stealers, executed military deserters and imprisoned homosexuals. They did and said things differently

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was shown at selected cinemas across the UK in its uncut format. In 2012, ITV3 showed the film uncut a few times, but with a warning at the start that it contains racial terms from the period which some people may find offensive. The original, uncensored, version was also shown on 1 and 5 January

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on electronic countermeasures and nuclear air sampling missions over hydrogen bomb test sites in the Pacific and Australia. However, part of the RAF's fleet of ageing Avro Lincolns had been mothballed at Hemswell prior to being broken up and several of these static aircraft appeared in background

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attended along with Eve Gibson, Guy Gibson's widow and his father. Richard Todd, Barnes Wallis and his wife and the surviving members of 617 Squadron who had taken part in the mission were all guests of honour. Fifteen survivors attended the premiere, and eleven next of kin, of those who did not

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The scene where they fly along a canal was filmed on the Dutch river (local nickname for the canal) on the way to Goole which is on the M62 to Hull. As the planes turn across country you can see Goole fully as they turn. This was used as the area around Goole is perfectly flat. Additional aerial

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In preparation for writing the script, Sherriff met with Barnes Wallis at his home, later returning accompanied by Brickhill, Walter Mycroft and production supervisor W.A. "Bill" Whittaker on 22 March 1952 to witness Wallis demonstrating his original home experiment. To Wallis's embarrassment he

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After the Air Ministry agreed to make available four Lancaster bombers at a cheap price which helped make the production viable, Associated British decided to proceed with the film and agreed with Brickhill on the film rights in December 1952 for what is believed to have been £5,000. After

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The wooden "coat hanger" bomb sight intended to enable crews to release the weapon at the right distance from the target was not wholly successful; some crews used it, but others came up with their own solutions, such as pieces of string in the bomb-aimer's position and/or markings on the

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No bomber flew into a hillside near a target on the actual raid. This scene, which is not in the original version, was included in the copy released on the North American market (see above). Three bombers are brought down by enemy fire and two crashed due to hitting power lines in the

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shots during filming, doubling for additional No 617 Squadron Lancasters. The station headquarters building still stands on what is now an industrial estate and is named Gibson House. The four wartime hangars also still stand, little changed in external appearance since the war.

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In the film Wallis (Redgrave) tells Gibson and Young that a mechanical problem with the release gear has been solved as the engineers had the correct oil in store. This is false; there was a technical problem which was solved by Sgt Charles Sackville-Bryant, who was awarded the

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The scenes of the attack on the Eder Dam show a castle resembling Schloss Waldeck on the wrong side of the lake and dam. The position and angle of the lake in relation to the castle suggest that in reality the bombing-run would have needed a downhill approach to the west of the

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towel which skipped off the water like a bouncing bomb to reserve a pool-side seat before the German tourists could reserve them with their towels. Both actions were followed by the comment "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label". The adverts were criticised by the

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in North America, and StudioCanal, the corporate heir to ABPC, in the rest of the world. Filming was planned to commence in 2009, on a budget of US$ 40 million, although no project-specific filming began. The project was delayed because Jackson decided to make

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The former operations briefing room at Scampton, where scenes were filmed, was now the NCO mess. On the set, a survivor of the raid, David Shannon, said 'I think altogether, too much has been made of this raid. To us, it was just another operation'

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gave the film three out of five, describing the film as "patriotic and spirit-lifting". A review commented, "It is testament to Anderson's authoritative, quiet guidance that the performances are largely realistic, and multi-dimensional."

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Other than the introduction and trio section theme, the majority of the march as performed is not featured in the film soundtrack. Coates himself avoided writing music for the cinema, remembering the experiences of his fellow composer

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was selected as the screenwriter with planned August delivery of the screenplay. Sherriff agreed with Brickhill's opinion that the film needed to concentrate on Operation Chastise and exclude the later operations covered in the book.

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incorporates a scene where the eponymous heroes take cover and are attacked by geese dropping golden eggs. To the Dambusters March tune, one of the eggs bounces several times before exploding against the wall behind which they have

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The black Labrador had never lived in a house before, and Richard Todd took the dog back to the White Hart Hotel in Lincoln, where the dog slept in the bathroom. Richard wanted to keep the dog, but the RAF would not let him.

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bomber for flight testing the bomb, Wallis suggests: "Well, if you told them that I designed it, do you think that might help?" Barnes Wallis was heavily involved with the design of the Wellington, as it used his

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reflects historical attitudes which audiences may find offensive, for reasons of historical accuracy we have opted to present the film as it was originally screened". The film was also shown uncut in cinemas.

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can be seen and heard playing on a television set several times during the film. Particular emphasis is placed on scenes in the film where characters mention Nigger, Guy Gibson's Labrador. "The reason that

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Just prior to the film's scheduled release, Guy Gibson's widow Eve took legal action to prevent it, and Brickhill and Clark were mired in months of wrangling with her until references to her husband's book

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who was the company's director of production. Brickhill decided to concentrate the film treatment on Operation Chastise and ignore the later raids. The film also took inspiration from the account

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screened a censored American version in July 2007, this screening took place just after the planned remake was announced. In September 2007, as part of the BBC Summer of British Film series,

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In 2018, news emerged that Jackson was to begin production on the film once again. He intended for production to commence soon, as he only had the film rights for "another year or two".

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This was McGoohan's feature film debut, playing a guard posted outside a briefing room where the crews are being told of their mission. His only lines are spoken to Gibson's dog.

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Anderson made the choice to shoot the film in black and white to allow the integration of original footage of the bomb trails, to boast a "gritty" documentary-style reality.

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said that he never encountered any opposition from bureaucracy. In the film, when a reluctant official asks what he can possibly say to the RAF to persuade them to lend a

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as stating: "Guy sometimes used to call his dog Nigsy, so I think that's what we will call it. Stephen has been coming up with other names, but this is the one I want."

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Stephen Fry, the screenwriter, said there was "no question in America that you could ever have a dog called the N-word". In the remake, the dog will be called "Digger".

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Serving RAF pilots from both squadrons based at Hemswell took turns flying the Lancasters during filming and found the close formation and low level flying around

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reported "a spokeswoman for the German embassy in London dismissed the idea that Germans might find the commercial offensive, adding: 'I find it very amusing'".

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bombers supplied by the RAF. The aircraft, four of the final production B.VIIs, had to be taken out of storage and specially modified by removing the mid-upper

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bombers were also used as "set dressing". (An American cut was made more dramatic by depicting an aircraft flying into a hill and exploding. This version used

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was acclaimed by critics, who widely praised its acting (especially Todd and Redgrave's), Anderson's direction, its superlative special effects photography by

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The film was the most successful film at the British box office in 1955 but performed poorly at the US box office, like most British war movies of this era.

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were sent to the film studios, and a mine-tracking dog was chosen, looked after by handler Lance Corporal Peter Reid of Ainslie Gardens in Perth, Scotland.

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with a warning explaining the film was historical and that some would find it to be racially offensive; "While we acknowledge some of the language used in

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had been breached, is portrayed in several scenes; his name and the codeword are mentioned fourteen times. Some of these scenes were sampled in the film

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Rather than the purpose as well as the method of the raid being Wallis's sole idea, the dams had already been identified as an important target by the

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Richard Todd considered the film as one of his favourites of all those that he appeared in, and went on to appear at many Dambusters-themed events.

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then. It would be grotesque to omit Nigger from a factual narrative merely because the word is rightly repugnant to twenty-first-century ears."

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was making the models and special effects for the film and had made 10 life-size Lancaster bombers. Fry said Wing Commander Guy Gibson's dog "

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began on Wednesday 21 April 1954, for four days. Appearing as an extra, on the beach, as an Air Commodore was Mr E Taylor, a teacher from

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Over time, the film's reputation has grown and is now regarded as a beloved classic of British cinema. The British Film Institute placed

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On 17 May 2018, a commemoration of the 75th anniversary was held, in which a restored version of the film was broadcast live from the

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return. Of the survivors attending, the only prisoner of war of the raid, 33 year old Australian Flt Lt Tony Burcher, rear gunner of

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to mimic 617 Squadron's special aircraft, and cost £130 per hour to run, which amounted to a tenth of the film's costs. A number of

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was my favourite of all of them. It's so stuffed with great characters." Waters had previously introduced the band's song '

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as "unnecessary and ridiculous" and because the edits introduced continuity errors. The code word "nigger" transmitted in

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A bomb aimer prepares to drop his bouncing bomb using an improvised device to determine the correct distance from the dam.

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has since been cited as one of the best British war films and one of the greatest films of the 20th century. In 1999, the

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An Avro Lancaster B.VII modified for the film with cut-out bomb bay and mock bouncing bomb demonstrating to a crowd at

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of the Ministry of Aircraft Production after Gibson requested they solve the problem. It was a proven method used by

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volunteering to follow him to his new command, only his wireless operator, Hutchinson, went with him to 617 Squadron.

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broadcast a censored version of the film, removing all utterances of "Nigger". ITV blamed regional broadcaster

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Some edited American versions of the film have used dubbing to change Nigger's name to "Trigger". The British

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Gibson's dog, Nigger, is depicted being killed on the day of the raid; Nigger actually died the day before.

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theme tune). The film was Britain's biggest box-office success of 1955. A much-loved British classic,

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Some of the sequences showing the testing of Upkeep—the code name for the weapon—in the film are of

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The film is largely historically accurate, with only a small number of changes made for reasons of

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Elisabeth Gaunt, Barnes Wallis's daughter in real life, appears as a photographer in the test tank

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On May 16, 1943, the bombers attack the Ruhr Dams. Eight Lancasters and 56 men are lost, but the

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heavy machine guns, not that for the .303 calibre machine guns found on the Lancaster in 1943.

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The German anti-aircraft personnel were played by the 247 (Ulster) LAA Regiment, part of the

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by Flying Officer Leslie Brown of Verena Terrace in Perth; he had been at Dunkirk with the

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Anthony Doonan as Flight Lieutenant Robert Hutchison, wireless operator of "George"

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Around twenty survivors of the raid, attended a dinner on Saturday 14 May at the

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revisiting the actual sites of the film, and testifying to the iconic status of

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Three of the four Lancaster bombers used in the film had also appeared in the

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awards for Best British Film, Best Screenplay and Best Film From Any Source.

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must drop a bomb on a rock overhanging a key German factory at the end of a

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The premiere helped to raise money and awareness for various RAF charities.

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fighter-bombers dropping the naval version of the bouncing bomb, code-named

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Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Legacy Books Press, 2008, First edition 2007.

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upon the successful completion of the central mission was not censored.

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Peter Assinder as Pilot Officer Andrew Deering, front gunner of "George"

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Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama

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The dummy bomb did not show the mechanism which created the back spin.

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true stories of the Second World War, a wonderful, wonderful story."

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Sydney Hobday (28 January 1912 - 24 February 2000), the navigator of

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Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II.

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Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II.

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On 16 May 2008, a commemoration of the 65th anniversary was held at

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CD notes for "The film music of Arthur Benjamin and Leighton Lucas"

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construction method, though he was not actually its chief designer.

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Basil Appleby as Flight Lieutenant Bob Hay, bomb aimer of "Popsie"

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as Flight Lieutenant Richard Trevor-Roper, rear gunner of "George"

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Filming began at Scampton on Tuesday 27 April 1954 for ten days.

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The film was first shown on British television on 30 May 1971.

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the 43rd greatest British film of all time. In a 2015 review,

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couldn't get it to work, no matter how many times he tried.

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as Flight Sergeant John Pulford, flight engineer of "George"

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as Flying Officer Frederick Spafford, bomb aimer of "George"

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The theatre scene showing the spotlights was filmed at the

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remains very well made and entertaining. The film holds a

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as the 68th greatest British film. In 2004, the magazine

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as Flight Lieutenant Torger Taerum, navigator of "George"

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http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/483144/index.html

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without any warning. It was the version, distributed by

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had wanted to make a film about the raid and had hired

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The flight sequences of the film were shot using real

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as Flight Lieutenant Jack Leggo, navigator of "Popsie"

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In 2007, it was announced it would be distributed by

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on 16 May 1955, the twelfth anniversary of the raid.

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which would skip over the water to avoid protective

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British Film Institute Online, accessed 22 May 2024

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Retrieved: 15 May 2009. 1822:Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre 700:Squadron Leader Melvin "Dinghy" Young 647:Anthony Shaw as RAF Officer at Trials 413:dams in the hope of crippling German 301:, the film depicts the true story of 7: 3267:"Dambusters dog bone of contention." 2198:from the original on 25 January 2021 1679:In 1999, British television network 1491:with an average rating of 7.9/10 on 1052:coast is crossed was filmed between 3256:, 2008. Retrieved: 4 December 2009. 2397:Forster, Charles (4 October 2017). 2387:, 2009. Retrieved: 4 December 2009. 1416:, on the morning of Friday 13 May. 849:(uncredited) as RAF Security Guard 751:Ronald Wilson as Flight Lieutenant 380:, provided the inspiration for the 4389:Films directed by Michael Anderson 3507:Garbett, Mike and Brian Goulding. 3173:"Fry denies 'Doctor Who' rumours." 2525:. 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