FEATURE FILM
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
The Valour and the Horror
10.0(2) 1992 104 min CA EN
A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperienced battalion of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment launched a doomed attack and was defeated with heavy casualties by veteran German SS troops. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.
Director
Brian McKenna
Status
Released
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Top Cast
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Terence McKenna
Narrator
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Roman Jarymowycz
interviewer
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Jacques Dextraze
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
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Sydney Radley-Walters
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
Patrick Goyette
Joseph Le Boutillier
Nicholas Campbell
Guy Simonds
Adrian Hough
German Officer
Wayne Robson
Donald Pearce
Nigel Bennett
Kurt Meyer
Stewart Arnott
Harry Foster
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