Summary: The premiere of the feature film "Cockleshell Heroes" (based on the December 1942 canoe raid on the blockade-runners at Bordeaux) at the Empire cinema, Leicester Square, 1955.
Description: Celebrities attending the premiere include Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding, Jack Hawkins with his wife Doreen, Michael Denison, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Robert Beattie; also Clement Attlee and his wife, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Gloucester. Haslar and Sparks, the two survivors of the 1942 raid, also attend, with members of their families.
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Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:PME 236
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1955
Production Country: GB
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
Mountbatten, Edwina (Countess) (person)
