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Battle of Britain (1969)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
“Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”
War, History, Action, Drama · 2h 12m
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.
Cast
Harry Andrews
Senior Civil Servant
Michael Caine
Squadron Leader Canfield
Trevor Howard
Air Vice Marshal Keith Park
Curd Jürgens
Baron von Richter
Ian McShane
Sgt. Pilot Andy
Kenneth More
Group Capt. Baker
Laurence Olivier
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Nigel Patrick
Group Capt. Hope
Christopher Plummer
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Michael Redgrave
Air Vice Marshal Evill
Ralph Richardson
Sir David Kelly - British Minister to Switzerland
Robert Shaw
Squadron Leader Skipper
Crew
- Director
- Guy Hamilton
- Screenplay
- James Kennaway, Wilfred Greatorex
- Novel
- Derek Dempster, Derek Wood
- Director of Photography
- Freddie Young
- Original Music Composer
- Ron Goodwin
- Editor
- Bert Bates
- Producer
- Benjamin Fisz, Harry Saltzman
Details
- Release date
- 1969-09-15
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Genres
- War, History, Action, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- German, French, Polish, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Spitfire Productions, United Artists
- Budget
- $12,000,000