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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
The Valour and the Horror
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.
Cast
- Terence McKenna as Narrator
- Roman Jarymowycz as interviewer
- Jacques Dextraze as Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
- Sydney Radley-Walters as Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
- Patrick Goyette as Joseph Le Boutillier
- Nicholas Campbell as Guy Simonds
- Adrian Hough as German Officer
- Wayne Robson as Donald Pearce
- Nigel Bennett as Kurt Meyer
- Stewart Arnott as Harry Foster
Details
- Director
- Brian McKenna
- Released
- January 26, 1992
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- War, Documentary
- Studio
- CBC and ONF | NFB
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 10.0 / 10 from 2 votes
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