Dunkirk (film)

Dunkirk is a 1958 British war film that was directed by Leslie Norman and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee. It was based on two novels Elleston Trevors The Big PickUp and Lt. Col. Ewan Hunter and Maj. J. S. Bradfords Dunkirk.

Corporal Tubby Binns John Mills, Lieutenant Lumpkin and their platoon return to their camp after blowing up a bridge, only to discover that their company has left during the night, leaving them alone in France. One man and a truck have been left to wait for them, but he and Lumpkin are killed in a bomber attack, leaving Tubby in charge with no idea what the situation is. It is up to Tubby to keep his increasingly demoralised men on the move. Unsure of where to go, they dodge the advancing Germans and reach a Royal Artillery battery camp. They receive some food, before being ordered to go to Dunkirk, where the rest of the British Expeditionary Force and tens of thousands of French soldiers are gathering, hoping to be evacuated. Eventually, they get a lift in an RAF lorry and reach the beaches.Meanwhile, a pessimistic journalist named Charles Foreman Bernard Lee tries unsuccessfully to rouse his complacent readers on the home front from the notion of a Phoney War before it is too late. The Germans rapidly take the initiative in the Battle of France threatening to destroy the Allied forces bottled up around Dunkirk. ........

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