They Who Dare

1954

1h 47m

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5.6/10

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In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.

Directors

Lewis Milestone

Writers

Robert Westerby(screenplay by)

Stars

Dirk Bogarde

Denholm Elliott

Eric Pohlmann

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Lieutenant Graham

Sergeant Corcoran

Captain Papadapoulos

Captain George One

Lieutenant Stevens

Lieutenant Poole

Marine Boyd

Captain George Two

Sergeant Evans

Toplis

Patroklis

Marika

George Two's Girlfriend

Kay Callard

Nightclub Singer

Eileen Way

Greek Woman

Peter Burton

Marine Barrett (uncredited)

Ernest Bale

Submarine Executive Officer (uncredited)

Christopher Rhodes

German Officer (uncredited)

Directors

Lewis Milestone

Writers

Robert Westerby(screenplay by)

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6/10

British forces in the Mediterranean are being constantly harried by Luftwaffe aircraft based on Rhodes. It falls to Dirk Bogarde ("Lt. Graham") to lead a small squad of British and Greek fighters whose job will be to infiltrate the defences of two air bases and reduce them - and their planes - to rubble, then get themselves back to the awaiting submarine of Eric Pohlmann's jovial "Capt. Papadapoulos". It has spells when it is quite exciting, but for the most part this is a rather slow-to-start and meandering adventure story that focusses way too much on the foibles of the characters rather than delivering a solid story. A decent cast - Denholm Elliott, Sam Kidd and Akim Tamiroff add little to neutralise the verbosity of the whole thing and the denouement didn't seem to quite make sense (or perhaps I just blinked?). It could easily lose twenty minutes of the preamble and focus more on the military and raiding aspects of the plot which I think would improve it greatly. As it is, Bogarde does enough to keep it moving - but only just.

Geronimo196726 Feb, 2023