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The Cockleshell Heroes | |
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Directed by | José Ferrer |
Screenplay by | Bryan Forbes Richard Maibaum |
Based on | Cockleshell Heroes 1951 Reader's Digest story by George Kent |
Produced by | Phil C. Samuel, Cubby Broccoli |
Starring | José Ferrer Trevor Howard, Christopher Lee |
Cinematography | John Wilcox |
Edited by | Alan Osbiston |
Music by | John Addison |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 97 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $200,000 (Germany)[2] |
The Cockleshell Heroes is a 1955 British Technicolor war film with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, Christopher Lee, David Lodge and José Ferrer, who also directed.[3] The film depicts a heavily fictionalised version of Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid on German cargo shipping by British Royal Marines Commandos, who infiltrated Bordeaux Harbour using folding kayaks.
It was the first Warwick Film to be filmed in CinemaScope. The producer, Cubby Broccoli, went on to produce films about a famous fictional commander of the Royal Navy in the James Bond franchise.
It was one of the top British box office hits of 1956.