A Royal Marine Reserve Major must collaborate with a veteran Captain and a group of incorrigible recruits to undertake what is widely seen as a suicide mission: the covert destruction of an entire German shipyard in occupied France. Cast: - José Ferrer as Major Stringer RM - Trevor Howard as Captain Hugh Thompson RM - Dora Bryan as Myrtie - Victor Maddern as Sergeant Craig RM - Anthony Newley as Marine Clarke - David Lodge as Marine Ruddock - Peter Arne as Corporal Stevens RM - Percy Herbert as Marine Lomas - Graham Stewart as Marine Booth - John Fabian as Marine Cooney - John Van Eyssen as Marine Bradley - Robert Desmond as Marine Todd - Walter Fitzgerald as the Gestapo Commandant - Karel Stepanek as Assistant Gestapo Officer - Beatrice Campbell as Mrs. Ruddock - Sydney Tafler as Policeman - Gladys Henson as Barmaid - Jacques B. Brunius as French Fisherman - Andreas Malandrinos as French Fisherman - Judith Furse as WVS Driver - Christopher Lee as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves - Patric Doonan as Sailor Claridge - Sam Kydd as Fish Lorry Driver Runtime: 97 minutes