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The Cockleshell Heroes is a 1955 British Technicolor war film with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, Christopher Lee, David Lodge and José Ferrer, who also directed. [3]
The Cockleshell Heroes: Directed by José Ferrer. With José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Dora Bryan, Christopher Lee. During World War II, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
A heavily fictionalised version of the event was depicted in the 1955 film The Cockleshell Heroes made by Warwick Films, and starring Anthony Newley, Trevor Howard, Christopher Lee, Victor Maddern, David Lodge and Jose Ferrer who was also the director.
Dec 30, 2022 · Cockleshell Heroes: the real story of WW2's Operation Frankton. The canoeing commandos of WWII’s Operation Frankton had an audacious mission: to sneak past the Nazis and blow up ships Bordeaux harbour. Pat Kinsella follows the action….
May 25, 2015 · The Cockleshell Heroes raided Nazi-occupied Bordeaux in December 1942 in ‘Operation Frankton’. The Cockleshell Heroes target was the harbour complex in the city.
Maj. Stringer (Jose Ferrer) needs to assemble a crack squad of British Royal Marines for a highly unusual mission. Though Capt. Thompson (Trevor Howard) is extremely skeptical, he dutifully helps...
Dec 10, 2022 · What struck those assembled, 80 years later, was how the story of the Cockleshell Heroes is among the greatest examples of bravery and sacrifice of the Second World War.
