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| Cast |
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| Corporal 'Tabby' Binns | John Mills |
| John Holden | Richard Attenborough |
| Charles Foreman | Bernard Lee |
| Mike Russell | Robert Urquhart |
| Barlow | Ray Jackson |
| Miles | Ronald Hines |
| Frankie | Sean Barrett |
| Harper | Roland Curram |
| Dave Bellman | Meredith Edwards |
| Froome | Michael Bates |
| Pannet | Rodney Diak |
| Jouvet | Michael Shillo |
| commander (Tough's Yard) | Eddie Byrne |
| Diana Foreman | Maxine Audley |
| colonel (medical officer) | Lionel Jeffries |
| merchant seaman | Victor Maddern |
| military spokesman | Anthony Nicholls |
| themselves | Flanagan and Allen |
| Lieutenant Lumpkin | Kenneth Cope |
| Fraser | Denys Graham |
| Don R (despatch rider) | Barry Foster |
| battery sergeant major | Warwick Ashton |
| battery major | Peter Halliday |
| staff colonels | John Welsh |
| | Lloyd Lamble |
| General The Viscount Gort, V.C. | Cyril Raymond |
| Vice Admiral Ramsay | Nicholas Hannen |
| Grace Holden | Patricia Plunkett |
| commander (Sheerness) | Michael Gwynn |
| old sweat | Fred Griffiths |
| Joe | Dan Cressy |
| sergeant on the beach | Christopher Rhodes |
| Dr Levy | Harry Landis |
| padre | John Horsley |
| sergeant on parade ground | Patrick Allen |
| sailor (uncredited) | Bernard Cribbins |
| refugee (uncredited) | Celia Hewitt |
| Corinne Gardner (uncredited |
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| Credits |
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| Directed by | Leslie Norman |
| Production Company | Ealing Films Limited |
| Presents | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| A Michael Balcon Production | Michael Balcon |
| Associate Producer | Michael Forlong |
| Unit Production Manager | Norman Priggen |
| Production Supervisor | Hal Mason |
| Assistant Director | Michael Birkett |
| Continuity | Lee Turner |
| [Casting] | Irene Howard |
| Screenplay by | David Divine, W.P. Lipscomb |
| Based on the Novel 'The Big Pick-Up' by | Elleston Trevor |
| and on 'Dunkirk' by | Lt. Col. Ewan Butler, Major J.G. Bradford |
| Director of Photography | Paul Beeson |
| Camera Operator | Hugh Wilson |
| Special Effects | Fred Hellenburgh |
| Editor | Gordon Stone |
| Art Director | Jim Morahan |
| Wardrobe Supervisor | Ivy Baker |
| Make-up | Roy Ashton |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
| [Music] Played by | The Sinfonia of London |
| Music Director | Dock Mathieson |
| Sound Supervisor | Stephen Dalby |
| Sound Recordist | Norman King |
| Sound System | Westrex Recording System |
| Sound Editor | Alastair McIntyre, Lionel Selwyn |
| Technical Adviser | Lt. Col. Butler, Lt. Cdr. John Pidler |
| Thanked in credits | The Admiralty, The War Office, Forces Armées Françaises, Small Boat Owners |
| Made at | MGM British Studios |
