A Terrible Beauty (film)

A Terrible Beauty a.k.a. The Night Fighters is a 1960 drama film, directed by Tay Garnett and starring Robert Mitchum and Richard Harris. It was adapted from a 1958 novel of the same name, written by Arthur Roth. It was an international coproduction between the United Kingdom and Robert Mitchums production company DRM.

Dermot and his friend Sean Reilly Harris are chosen from their unit to participate in a raid on a British armoury to steal weapons and ammunition. Don McGinnis Dan OHerlihy is frustrated because, as commandant of the unit, he is too important to risk. The theft goes off without a hitch.However, their next attack, to destroy a guarded power plant in concert with a planned German invasion, results in bloodshed. To get away, Dermot shoots a soldier blocking the way out. Sean is wounded in the foot and Johnny Corrigan is killed. Dermot and Sean evade their pursuers and manage to cross the border to safety in Ireland. Dermot returns home, leaving his friend to recuperate. ........

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