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24 October 2004 (UK) moreTagline:
The true story of the greatest deception of world War TwoPlot:
The true story of the greatest deception of WW2: one which helped change the course of the war itself. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
almost an epic, but still worth watching. more (3 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jason Durr | ... | Lt. Col. Strangeways | |
| Howard Attfield | ... | Col. Turner | |
| Grant Burgin | ... | Sergeant Granger | |
| Dorian Healy | ... | Major Barkus | |
| Coral Beed | ... | Lady Elizabeth Clemens | |
| Peter Pacey | ... | Dennis Wheatley | |
| Nigel Williams | ... | Brigadier Boyson | |
| Roger Barclay | ... | Major T.A. Robertson | |
| Peter Wickham | ... | General Mansfield | |
| Matt Canavan | ... | Private Williams | |
| Kieron Jecchinis | ... | Vicar (as Kieron Jecchins) | |
| Jeff Harding | ... | General Stimson | |
| Richard Lintern | ... | Col. Bevan | |
| Richard Wills-Cotton | ... | Douglas Fairbanks Junior | |
| Daniel Hart | ... | Corporal Collins |
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Revealing mistakes: Towards the end of the film one of the dummy camps is overflown by a computer generated JU87 Stuka. This clearly has no undercarriage whereas all marks of Stuka had permanently fixed down landing gear. Nor would such a slow vulnerable a/c be used for low level reconnaissance. moreFAQ
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Essentially a very good and long overdue concept for a film / miniseries / drama-doc, but struggling to cope with an obviously pitiful budget and a truly awful script.
Most of the cast did their best - but seemed to be on day-release from otherwise more exciting projects, some of them trying too hard to make something of their highly compressed roles and mangled text - the Dennis Wheatly character tottering on the edge of hammy camp.
Its a really strong concept, how British ( and later American ) tech-bods came up with countless concepts to fool, be muddle and confuse the Germans on a shoestring budget - from thousands of plywood aircraft to draw fire away from real aerodromes - to exploding rats and dummy parachutists, its examines the triumph of imagination and creativity over brute force, many of the ideas were original and intriguing - with plenty of humour and human interest, but it was handicapped by an obviously small budget and really small scale direction, in parts it came across as a dramatised educational program from the late '70's.
You never know - perhaps someone with deeper pockets will see this and realise that the foundation of a very good film is in here - after all -' someone' thought Enigma was a good idea, and as 'Downfall' has shown us, you can produce an astonishing quality war film based in the confines of a bunker - so why not one with the 'Back-room-boys'?