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India Four Two
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
And my late father, who was doing his National Service at the time and was nailed as one of the extra's as his outfit still had 1940s pattern uniform and webbing. According to him the only close up of him was from the rear as one of the soldiers praying on the beach when Bernard Lee cops it.