The Dam Busters (1955)

Directors

Michael Anderson

Cast

Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney, Patrick Barr

The story

Aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis is struggling to develop a means of attacking Germany's Ruhr Dams in the hope of crippling German heavy industry. Working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, as well as his own job at Vickers, he works feverishly to make practical his theory of a bouncing bomb which would skip over the water to avoid protective torpedo nets. When it hit the dam, backspin would make it sink while retaining contact with the wall, making the explosion far more destructive.

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