The Dam Busters (DVD)

England, 1942. War is raging and industry is working at 110% in order to produce war material to fight the Germans. But Barnes Wallis (Michael Redgrave), a British scientist, has an idea to shorten the war. He believes that if a bomb (that has not been developed yet) is released from an aircraft doing a certain speed from a certain height then that bomb will bounce on the surface of the water hitting the wall of a Dam, where it will sink to a predetermined depth and then explode using the force of the water to breach Dam which is 120 yards thick, flooding the Ruhr valley and therefore severely damaging the German war effort. This could be a crazy scientist's ...  Read the complete review

Director: Michael Anderson. Writers: R.C. Sheriff and Paul Brickhill Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans and Basil Sydney. Music by Eric Coates, (creating a very well known theme tune) Released in May 1955 this 2 hour war time movie depicts the true story of how one mans idea became embedded in history to be remembered for ever... ** BRIEF PLOT ** During World war two (1943) Doctor Barnes Wallis, (played by Michael Redgrave) is attempting to build a special type of bomb which he hopes can be used to destroy certain German dams... knowing that dropping normal bombs on the dams will have little effect ...  Read the complete review

This black and white film really is one of the all time classic war films. The film is set in 1942 of the Second World War and follows the events of the specially formed RAF 617 Squadron. This squadron was given the task of destroying the huge dams in the Ruhr valley of Germany in order to flood the steel factories of the area and also to deprive them of the water needed for the steel making process. The dams were heavily defended and so a special bomb was needed and the brilliant inventor Barnes Wallis was given the challenge of how to attack the dams. Wallis came up with the idea of a bouncing bomb that would detonate under the water next to the dam ...  Read the complete review

Based on the true story of the dam busters this film is probably the best war film I have ever seen. Although the graphics of flac are rubbish, what can you expect seeing as it was made about 10 years after the war had finished. Being so near to the end of the war this means that they probably got more of the true facts right. Barnes Wallis the designer of the Wellington bomber tries to find a way to destroy the dams of the main rivers in Germany. The idea was to destroy industrial plants and although it didn't really affect the Germans in the short run but in the long run it put Britain’s morale up so high the Germans couldn't possibly break it. Wallis ...  Read the complete review