The Cockleshell Heroes

UK U Certificate
In cinemas
November 21, 1955
Buy it from
July 15, 2019
Director
Runtime
1 Hour 37 Minutes
Genre
Action, War, Drama
Language
English
From Eureka Entertainment
Contains mild violence

At the height of the Second World War, a battalion of German ships are safely docked at the “unassailable” port of Bordeaux. Newly promoted Major Stringer has a unique idea – send a team of commandos out in collapsible canoes, have them paddle seventy miles upriver in arduous conditions and blow up the German ships with limpet mines.

Last updated
May 9, 2019

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