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Originally Posted by JScones
At the risk of highjacking, has anyone seen "Attack on the Iron Coast", the movie based on Operation Chariot? If so, is it worth watching/buying? I just stumbled across it on amazon.com.
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I saw it some time ago on TV; it was pretty dull and formulaic, with cartoon Germans and wooden Allies. (Whose idea was it to cast the breathtakingly bad Lloyd Bridges in the lead??) I guess some of the music was good, but that's because much of it was stolen from Ron Goodwin's excellent score for
633 Squadron. Operation Chariot was one of the most extraordinary and influential commando operations of the war, and it's too bad that the movie turned out to be such a turkey. (Despite the resurgence of interest in WWII films in the last decade or so, it's probably too much to hope for a new film on this great event.) I wouldn't go out of my way to see it again.