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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

(1992)

January 26, 1992 1h 44m
100%
TMDB Score

Overview

A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperienced battalion of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment launched a doomed attack and was defeated with heavy casualties by veteran German SS troops. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.

Brian McKenna

Director

Top Billed Cast

TM

Terence McKenna

Narrator

RJ

Roman Jarymowycz

interviewer

JD

Jacques Dextraze

Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

SR

Sydney Radley-Walters

Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)

PG

Patrick Goyette

Joseph Le Boutillier

NC

Nicholas Campbell

Guy Simonds

AH

Adrian Hough

German Officer

WR

Wayne Robson

Donald Pearce

NB

Nigel Bennett

Kurt Meyer

SA

Stewart Arnott

Harry Foster