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Gift Horse (Vintage Classics)

Gift Horse (Vintage Classics)

Barcode 5055201847720
Blu-ray

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Release Date: 04/04/2022

Edition: Restored
Region Code: Blu-ray B
Certificate: PG
Label: StudioCanal
Actors: Bernard Lee, Robin Bailey, Sid James, Patric Doonan, Meredith Edwards, John Forrest, Hugh Williams, Dora Bryan, Sonny Tufts, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, James Donald
Director: Compton Bennett
Number of Discs: 1
Duration: 100 minutes
Audio Languages: English
Subtitle Languages: English

In 1940, the Royal Navy is frantically recruiting for WWII so pulls Lieutenant Commander Fraser out of retirement to captain the HMS Ballantrae, herself recently re-commissioned and lent by the Americans to a seriously under-resourced British Navy. Despite an inauspicious start and multiple repairs, Fraser crafts the ship and its crew into an efficient fighting force, culminating in a daring mission to destroy a French dockyard which is crucial to the Nazis in maintaining their formidable battleships. The climax of the film is a fictional account of the real-life St Nazaire Raid of 1942 AKA Operation Chariot - led by a ship very similar to the Gift Horse itself, and celebrated as The Greatest Raid of All.

Special Features: Bonus Footage, Documentaries: 'Operation Chariot and HMS Campbeltown: James Dorrian Remembers the Real Gift Horse', 'Ceremony Commemorating 5 Year Anniversary of the St Nazaire Raid', Image Gallery, Trailers
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