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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

Directed by Brian McKenna
1992    1h 44m
A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperienced battalion of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment launched a doomed attack and was defeated with heavy casualties by veteran German SS troops. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.
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Cast of In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
  • Terence McKennaNarrator
  • Roman Jarymowyczinterviewer
  • Jacques DextrazeSelf (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
  • Sydney Radley-WaltersSelf (Sherbrooke Regiment)
  • Patrick GoyetteJoseph Le Boutillier
  • Nicholas CampbellGuy Simonds
  • Adrian HoughGerman Officer
  • Wayne RobsonDonald Pearce
  • Nigel BennettKurt Meyer
  • Stewart ArnottHarry Foster

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