--- title: 'The Dam Busters (1955)' type: 'film' director: 'Michael Anderson' released: '1955-01-01' runtime_minutes: 122 genres: - 'Drama' - 'War' - 'History' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-dam-busters-1955' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Dam Busters (1955) 1955 · 122 min · Drama, War, History · United Kingdom ## Synopsis The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, and directed by Michael Anderson. Adapted by R. C. Sherriff from the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson, the film depicts the true story of Operation Chastise in which the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe dams in Nazi Germany with Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb. ## Credits - **Director:** [Michael Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-anderson) - **Screenplay:** [R. C. Sherriff](https://cinepixo.com/people/r-c-sherriff) - **Original Music Composer:** [Eric Coates](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-coates) - **Producer:** [Robert Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-clark-2) - **Director of Photography:** [Erwin Hillier](https://cinepixo.com/people/erwin-hillier) - **Editor:** [Richard Best](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-best) ## Cast - [Brenda De Banzie](https://cinepixo.com/people/brenda-de-banzie) as Waitress - [Edward Cast](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-cast) as Crew Member - [Philip Latham](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-latham) as Flight Sergeant - [Harold Goodwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-goodwin-2) as Gibson's batman - [Michael Redgrave](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-redgrave) as Barnes Wallis - [Richard Thorp](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-thorp) as Henry Eric Maudslay - [Bill Kerr](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-kerr) as Harold Brownlow Martin - [Richard Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-coleman) as RAF Officer - [Ernest Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-clark) as Ralph Cochrane - [Derek Farr](https://cinepixo.com/people/derek-farr) as John Whitworth - [Edwin Styles](https://cinepixo.com/people/edwin-styles) as Observer at Trials - [Edwin Richfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/edwin-richfield) as RAF Officer - [Hugh Manning](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-manning) as Ministry of Aircraft Production Official - [Nigel Stock](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-stock) as Flying Officer Frederick Spafford - [Patrick McGoohan](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-mcgoohan) as RAF Security Guard ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-dam-busters-1955 Film facts: Wikidata (Q710850); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.