Synopsis
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
- Terence McKennaNarrator
- Roman Jarymowyczinterviewer
- Jacques DextrazeSelf (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
- Sydney Radley-WaltersSelf (Sherbrooke Regiment)
- Patrick GoyetteJoseph Le Boutillier
- Nicholas CampbellGuy Simonds
- Adrian HoughGerman Officer
- Wayne RobsonDonald Pearce
- Nigel BennettKurt Meyer
- Stewart ArnottHarry Foster
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