In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

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1992-01-26 | 104 min
WarDocumentary

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.

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Cast

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Terence McKenna

Narrator

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Roman Jarymowycz

interviewer

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Jacques Dextraze

Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

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Sydney Radley-Walters

Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)

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Patrick Goyette

Joseph Le Boutillier

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Nicholas Campbell

Guy Simonds

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Adrian Hough

German Officer

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Wayne Robson

Donald Pearce

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Nigel Bennett

Kurt Meyer

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Stewart Arnott

Harry Foster

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