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Old 28th Jul 2017, 03:52
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India Four Two
 
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Dreadful. I would have walked out except for the fact that my son took me.

A significant sequence involves the civilian boat captain rescuing the pilot of a ditched Spitfire from drowning. Why was he drowning? Because he ditched with the canopy closed!

However, the shots of the Spitfires and the Blenheim were nice.

All-in-all, it made me decide to watch the original movie again. I was living in Ramsgate when they made that film and they used the harbour entrance for some shots, complete with sand bags, barbed wire and AA guns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_(1958_film)

Starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee


The film was the second most popular production at the British box office in 1958. According to MGM records it earned only $310,000 in the U.S.A. and Canada, but $1,750,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $371,000.
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