They Who Dare
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.
- 5.6
- 1954
- Released
- 1h 47m
Dirk Bogarde
Lieutenant Graham
Denholm Elliott
Sergeant Corcoran
Eric Pohlmann
Captain Papadapoulos
Akim Tamiroff
Captain George One
Harold Siddons
Lieutenant Stevens
William Russell
Lieutenant Poole
Sam Kydd
Marine Boyd
David Peel
Sergeant Evans
Michael Mellinger
Toplis
Alec Mango
PatroklisAnthea Leigh
Marika
Lisa Gastoni
George Two's Girlfriend
Kay Callard
Nightclub Singer
Eileen Way
Greek Woman
Peter Burton
Marine Barrett (uncredited)Ernest Bale
Submarine Executive Officer (uncredited)Christopher Rhodes
German Officer (uncredited)
Robert Rietti
Italian Officer (uncredited)Peter Taylor
German Officer (uncredited)
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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. Papadapoul
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.