The Dam Busters

In the early years of the Second World War, aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis is struggling to develop a means of attacking Nazi Germany dams in the hope of crippling German heavy industry. Working for the Minister of Aircraft Production, as well as doing his own job at Vickers-Armstrongs, he works feverishly to make practical his theory of a bouncing bomb which would skip over the water to avoid protective torpedo nets. When it came into contact with the dam, it would sink before exploding, making it much more destructive. Wallis calculates that the aircraft will have to fly extremely low () to enable the bombs to skip over the water correctly, but when he takes his conclusions to the Ministry, he is told that lack of production capacity means they cannot go ahead with his proposals.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 12200
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide May 16, 1955
  • Content Rating United States of America NR
  • Runtime 124 minutes
  • Genres Drama Action Thriller
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English
  • Studio Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Production Company Associated British Picture Corporation
  • Production Countries Great Britain
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Basil Sydney
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
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Patrick Barr
as Captain Joseph (Mutt) Summers, C.B.E.
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Stanley Van Beers
as Sir David Pye, C.B., F.R.S.
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Hugh Moxey
as Observer at Trials
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Harold Siddons
as Group Signals Officer
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Brewster Mason
as Flt / Lt. R. D. Trevor-Roper, D.F.C., D.F.M.
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Tony Doonan
as Flt / Lt. R. E. G. Hutchison, D.F.C.
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Nigel Stock
as Flying / Off. F. M. Spafford, D.F.C., D.F.M.
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Brian Nissen
as Flt / Lt. A. T. Taerum, D.F.C.
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Robert Shaw
as Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M.
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Richard Leech
as Squadron Leader H. M. Young, D.F.C.
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Richard Thorp
as Squadron Leader H. E. Maudslay, D.F.C.
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David Morell
as Flight Lieutenant W. Astell, D.F.C.
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Bill Kerr
as Flight Lieutenant H. B. Martin, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C.
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Ronald Wilson
as Flight Lieutenant D. J. Shannon, D.S.O., D.F.C.
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Denys Graham
as Flying Officer L. G. Knight, D.S.O.
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Basil Appleby
as Flight Lieutenant R. C. Hay, D.F.C.
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Tim Turner
as Flight Lieutenant J. F. Leggo, D.F.C.
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Ewen Solon
as Flight Sergeant G. E. Powell
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Harold Goodwin
as Wing Comdr. Gibson's Batman
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Richard Todd
as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
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Charles Carson
as Doctor
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Michael Redgrave
as Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.
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Derek Farr
as Group Captain J. N. H. Whitworth, D.S.O., D.F.C.
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Raymond Huntley
as Official, National Physical Laboratory
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Laurence Naismith
as Farmer
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John Fraser
as Flight Lieutenant J. V. Hopgood, D.F.C.
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George Baker
as Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.
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