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The Valour and the Horror - In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
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Title: In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

Release Date: 26 Jan 1992

Runtime: 1h 44m

Genre: War, Documentary

Director: CBC, ONF | NFB

Production Companies: CBC, ONF | NFB

Overview: 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

  • Narrator: Terence McKenna
  • interviewer: Roman Jarymowycz
  • Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal): Jacques Dextraze
  • Self (Sherbrooke Regiment): Sydney Radley-Walters
  • Joseph Le Boutillier: Patrick Goyette
  • Guy Simonds: Nicholas Campbell
  • German Officer: Adrian Hough
  • Donald Pearce: Wayne Robson
  • Kurt Meyer: Nigel Bennett
  • Harry Foster: Stewart Arnott
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