In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House
The Plot
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.
Run Time
1h 44m
Genre
War, Documentary
Release Date
26 Jan 1992
Country
TBA
Language
TBA
Director & Producers
Top Billed Cast
Narrator
interviewer
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
Patrick GoyetteJoseph Le Boutillier
Nicholas CampbellGuy Simonds
Adrian HoughGerman Officer
Wayne RobsonDonald Pearce
Nigel BennettKurt Meyer
Stewart ArnottHarry Foster


Adam Symansky
Arnie Gelbart