The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
They Called Them "Canoe Commandos"
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
- Date of release
- 1955-11-16
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (34)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- War
- Director
- José Ferrer
Casting
- Trevor Howard — Captain Thompson
- José Ferrer — Major Stringer
- Anthony Newley — Marine Clarke
- Victor Maddern — Sgt. Craig
- Percy Herbert — Marine Lomas
- David Lodge — Marine Ruddock
- Peter Arne — Marine Stevens
- Graham Stewart — Marine Booth
- John Fabian — Marine Cooney
- John Van Eyssen — Marine Bradley
- Robert Desmond — Marine Todd
- Walter Fitzgerald — Gestapo Comdt.
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