“Dunkirk”
is a World War II drama, screenplay by David Divine and W.P. Lipscomb based on
the Novel’s by Lt. Col. Ewan Butler, Major J.S. Bradford M.B.E. M.C. and Trevor
Dudley Smith and Directed by Leslie Norman.
Dunkirk is a dramatization of the British
Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the
extraordinary seaborne evacuation, Operation Dynamo, which saved it from utter destruction by Nazi
Germany.
It’s
actually two stories in one, firstly, seen through the eyes of a squad of
infantrymen, and their leader, Corporal
'Tubby' Binns (John Mills), an easygoing soldier who finds himself responsible
for the lives of his men when their officer is killed and he has to get them
back to Britain somehow.
The
second story concerns British civilians John Holden (Richard Attenborough),
Charles Foreman (Bernard Lee) and Frankie (Sean Barrett) who are drafted into
the war to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches in
their little river cruisers.
The
two stories finally converge on the Dunkirk beaches.
Over 300,000 Allied troops escaped, living to fight another day. This, and the method to evacuate them - the large scale use of civilian craft of all shapes and sizes, bolstered British morale and ultimately kept Britain in the war.
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