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Dad's Army is a British film of genre Drama directed by Norman Cohen released in USA on 1 september 1971 with Arthur Lowe
Dad's Army (1971)
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Add to a movie listDad's Army is a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film tells the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
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1940 - Operation Dynamo has just taken place. From the newly conquered French coastline, a Wehrmacht colonel looks out over the English Channel with powerful binoculars. Surveying the white cliffs of Dover, he spies Godfrey emerging from a lavatory. Godfrey joins the rest of his platoon, who are defiantly waving the Union Flag. The colonel fumes contemptuously, "How can the stupid British ever hope to win?!"Actors
Arthur Lowe
(Capt. George Mainwaring)
Clive Dunn
(LCpl. Jack Jones)
John Le Mesurier
(Sgt. Arthur Wilson)
John Laurie
(Pte. James Frazer)
James Beck
(Pte. Joe Walker)
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(1971)
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