Directed by:
Compton BennettCinematography:
Harry WaxmanComposer:
Clifton ParkerCast:
Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald, Bernard Lee, Hugh Williams, Sidney James, Joan Rice, Hugh Hastings, Harry Towb, Anthony Oliver (more)Plots(1)
In 1940, the Royal Navy is frantically recruiting for WWII so pulls Lieutenant Commander Fraser out of retirement to captain the HMS Ballantrae, herself recently re-commissioned and lent by the Americans to a seriously under-resourced British Navy. Despite an inauspicious start and multiple repairs, Fraser crafts the ship and its crew into an efficient fighting force, culminating in a daring mission to destroy a French dockyard which is crucial to the Nazis in maintaining their formidable battleships. The climax of the film is a fictional account of the real-life St Nazaire Raid of 1942 AKA Operation Chariot - led by a ship very similar to the Gift Horse itself, and celebrated as The Greatest Raid of All. (StudioCanal UK)
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