Battle of the V-1
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| Directed by | Vernon Sewell |
| Produced by | George Maynard John Bash |
| Written by | Jack Hanley Eryk Wlodek Bernard Newman |
| Starring | Michael Rennie Patricia Medina |
| Music by | Robert Sharples |
| Cinematography | Basil Emmott |
| Edited by | Lito Carruthers |
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Production
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Eros Films & John Bash Films Corporation
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| Distributed by | Eros Films |
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Release dates
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25 August 1958 (UK) |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Battle of the V-1 (also known as Battle of the V.1, Battle of the V1, Missiles from Hell and Unseen Heroes[1]) is a British war film from 1958, starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, Milly Vitale, David Knight and Christopher Lee. It is based on the novel They Saved London (1955), by Bernard Newman.[2]
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Plot
The film tells the story of a Polish Resistance group which discovers details of the manufacture of the German V-1 'Flying Bomb' at Peenemünde in 1943. Liaising with service chiefs in London, the group manage to pass on enough information to convince them to launch a bombing raid and, in the climax to the film, are able to steal a V-1 which lands in a field during testing and arrange for its transport back to Great Britain.
Cast
- Michael Rennie as Stefan
- Patricia Medina as Zofia
- Milly Vitale as Anna
- David Knight as Tadek
- Esmond Knight as Stricker
- Christopher Lee as Brunner
- John G. Heller as Fritz
- Carl Jaffe as General
- Peter Madden as Stanislaw
- George Pravda as Karewski
- Gordon Sterne as Margraaf
- Carl Duering as Scientist
- Harold Siddons as Wing Commander Searby - Master Bomber
- George Pastell as Eryk
- Henry Vidon as Konim
- Jan Conrad as Wlodek
- Tom Clegg as Anton
- Geoffrey Chater as Minister of Defence
- Julian Somers as Reichfuhrer
- Gertan Klauber as SS Guard - Dentist's surgery (uncredited)
- Richard Pearson as Senior RAF Officer (uncredited)
- Frank Thornton as British Scientist (uncredited)
- Patrick Waddington as Air Marshal (uncredited)
See also
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Battle of the V-1 at IMDb
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- ↑ BFI Database: Alternatives names for "Battle of the V-1" Retrieved 2011-11-27
- ↑ BFI Database: Synopsis for "Battle of the V-1" Retrieved 2011-11-27
