The Dambusters - Brand New Restoration

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Stuart McLean

Certificate: PG
Running Time: 113 Mins
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Release Date: 04/06/2018
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson’s 1955 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the centre of Nazi Germany’s industrial complex and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination.

Split into two distinct sections, the film deals first with the fraught, but the ultimately successful development of a new bomb, by Dr. Barnes N. Wallis(Michael Redgrave). The second deals with the mission itself during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams, and its associated costs for the enemy and for the British airmen.

Adapted by R.C. Sherriff from Paul Brickhill’s book “Enemy Coast Ahead” and featuring superlative special effects photography by Gilbert Taylor (to say nothing of Eric Coates’ stirring theme tune), The Dam Busters was Britain’s biggest box office success of 1955.

Special Features:
Main feature in 1.37:1 and 1.75:1 (Blu-ray and Collector's Edition only)
NEW: The Making of The Dam Busters documentary (39 mins)
NEW: Restoration featurette (5 mins 57)
617 Squaron Remembers – 2010 documentary (56 mins)
Sir Barnes Wallis – 1972 documentary (28 mins)
Footage of the bomb tests (6 mins 42)
Dam Busters Royal Premiere (1955) (3 mins 09)
Dam Busters Reunion (1955) 2 mins 55)
Behind-the-scenes stills gallery
Additional features in the Collector's Edition:

64-page booklet with foreword by Dan Snow

5 Art Cards
RAF Chastise Lancaster Bombers poster
Reproduction photograph of the Möhne Dam after the raid signed by the original 617 Squadron