They Who Dare
Overview
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.
- Production
- Mayflower Productions
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Cast
Dirk Bogarde
Lieutenant Graham
Denholm Elliott
Sergeant Corcoran
Eric Pohlmann
Captain Papadapoulos
Akim Tamiroff
Captain George One
William Russell
Lieutenant Poole
Sam Kydd
Marine Boyd
Gérard Oury
Captain George Two
David Peel
Sergeant Evans
Michael Mellinger
Toplis
Alec Mango
Patroklis
Lisa Gastoni
George Two's Girlfriend
Kay Callard
Nightclub Singer
Eileen Way
Greek Woman
Peter Burton
Marine Barrett (uncredited)
Robert Rietti
Italian Officer (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Lewis Milestone
- Writers
- Robert Westerby
- Producers
- Aubrey Baring,Maxwell Setton
- Cinematography
- Wilkie Cooper
- Composer
- Robert Gill
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John Chard
July 30, 2014
The Colossus’ of Rhodes. They Who Dare is directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Robert Westerby. It stars Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff, William Russell, Eric Pohlmann and Harold Siddons. Music is by Robert Gill and cinematograpy by Wilkie Cooper. It’s “men on a mission” time as Special Commandos and some Greek partisans meet up on Rhodes to blow up two German airfields. And that’s about it really, oh of course there’s problems along the way such as questions of loyalt…
CinemaSerf
February 26, 2023
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 a…