The Dam Busters is a 1955 British Second World War war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd and directed by Michael Anderson. The film recreates the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany with Wallis's "bouncing bomb". The film was based on the books The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy Gibson. The film falls into two parts. The first part involves Wallis struggling to develop a means of attacking Germany's dams in the hope of crippling German heavy industry. Working... for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, as well as doing his own job at Vickers, 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.
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| Release date: | 1954 |
| Directed by: | Michael Anderson |
| Runtime: | 124 Minutes |
| Music by: | Eric Coates |
| Cinematography: | Erwin Hillier |
| Screenplay by: | Guy Gibson, Paul Brickhill |
| Adapted from: | The Dam Busters |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |