Paratrooper
(1953)
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Cast
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| Alan Ladd | ... |
Steve 'Canada' McKendrick
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Leo Genn | ... |
Major J. Snow
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Susan Stephen | ... |
Penny Gardner
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| Harry Andrews | ... |
R.S.M. Cameron
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Donald Houston | ... |
Taffy Evans
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Anthony Bushell | ... |
Major General A.B.C. Whiting
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Patric Doonan | ... |
Flash
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| Stanley Baker | ... |
Sergeant Breton
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Lana Morris | ... |
Pinky
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Tim Turner | ... |
Rupert
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Michael Kelly | ... |
Corporal Dawes
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Anton Diffring | ... |
The Pole
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Thomas Heathcote | ... |
Alf
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Carl Duering | ... |
Rossi
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John Boxer | ... |
Flight Sgt. Box
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Storyline
Alan Ladd is the focus of this story based on the wartime raid on the German radar station at Bruneval. The raid was a combined services operation and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Parachute Brigade was led by Major 'John Frost' (Major Snow). An RAF radar expert, Flight Sergeant C.W.H. Cox (Sergeant Box) accompanied the raiders to tell them what to take back to England. Written by Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
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(Japan) See more »Also Known As:
Les bérets rouges See more »Company Credits
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1.37 : 1
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Trivia
This movie was produced by Albert R. Broccoli (along with Irving Allen. Broccoli would later go on to produce the James Bond movies. First ever cinema James Bond Sean Connery played Major-General Robert E. Urquhart, a Maroon Beret soldier of the The 1st British Airborne in A Bridge Too Far. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: When McKendrick, Penny and Major Snow are waiting for the arrival of the DC3 Dakotas, we see a DC3 landing with the markings of the United States Air Force, which was not formed until 1948. During the time period of the film it was still The US Army Air Corps. See more »
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