DIEPPE
Directed by John N. Smith
Produced by John Krizanc based on the novel by Brian Villa
| Maj. Gen. Hamilton Roberts | Gary Reineke |
| Vice-Admiral Lord Loius Mountbatten | Victor Garbier |
| Royal Navy Captain Jock Hughes-Hallett | Robert Joy |
| Lt.-Gen. Harry Crerar | Kenneth Welsh |
| General Sir Alan Brooke | John Neville |
| General Andrew McNaughton | Peter Donat |
| Prime Minister Winston Churchill | W.B. Brydon |
| Anne Westwood | Gabrielle Rose |
| Leith Hayman | Larissa Lapchinshki |
| Casey (Pte.) | Aidan Devine |
| Stefan (Pte.) | Gordon Currie |
| Kazimierz Jawarski (Sgt.) | Thomas Mitchell |
| Jean (Pte.) | Alain Vandelac |
| Lionel (Pte.) | John Nelles |
| Rear Admiral Baillie-Grohman | Nigel Bennett |
| Major Magnus Matrinson | Greg Ellwand |
| General Bernard Montgomery | Graham Harley |
| Air Vice-Marshall Leigh-Mallory | Benedict Campbell |
| Air Marshall Sir Charles Portal | Gerard Parkes |
| First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound | Joseph Shaw |
| Noel Coward | Jim Mezon |
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Dieppe was written by Governor General's Award-winning playwright John Krizanc and is based partly on the book Unauthorized Action by Brian Villa and three years of research by Krizanc and other researchers. Dieppe is a detailed dramatization of the lives that were touched and changed forever by the raid on the Nazi-occupied French seaside town of Dieppe on August 19, 1942. The film alternately focuses on the top military and political officials who planned the ill-fated attack, and a fictional group of soldiers who bond during their training for their landing on the deadly beaches of France.
Copyright 1993 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. |
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dieppe1.wav "He has every right to be angry. I'm working with crews that have virtually no experience with this sort of operation. Quite frankly, I still think the troops will have a sticky time getting ashore without a battleship." |
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dieppe2.wav "Believe me, the first thing I did when I was appointed Naval Commander was to ask why there wasn't one, but I was informed it had been vetoed in the highest circles." dieppe3.wav "Quite frankly, given the failure of the exercise and the lack of a battleship, I suggest we cancel the entire operation. It's not worth the risk." |
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dieppe4.wav "If you're going, we'll certainly set you down on the right beaches." |
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dieppe5.wav "Why are you looking at me, Dicky? I can't control the weather in France. And I'm certainly not about to hazard an ampihibious landing in rough seas!" dieppe6.wav "If I don't disperse the fleet, they'll be back to sink every ship in the harbour. I'm afraid there's nothing for it but to cancel." |
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dieppe7.wav "It's not your call, Dicky. It's mine!" dieppe8.wav "The operation's cancelled." |
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| "Dieppe was quite unremarkable. I didn't honestly think the final product was all that good, and only got the job because someone else dropped out. I did love the moment when I said, "It's not your call Dicky." to Mountbatten. I thought Victor Garber was going to explode!" |
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