Valiant (2005)

Directors

Gary Chapman

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Pip Torrens, Dan Roberts, Brian Lonsdale, John Cleese, Olivia Williams, John Hurt

The story

In May 1944, during World War II, three Royal Homing Pigeon Service (RHPS) war pigeons led by Mercury are flying across the English Channel carrying a vital message to Great Britain when they are ambushed by a German-affiliated peregrine falcon named General Von Talon, who kills Mercury's comrades and takes him as a prisoner of war. In West Nestington, a small wood pigeon named Valiant watches an Allied propaganda film at his local bar with his best friend and barman, a seagull named Felix, before a war hero named Wing Commander Gutsy arrives to announce signups for the RHPS will begin the next day in Trafalgar Square. Valiant encounters…

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