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British Film Night: The Password is Courage

on BBC One London

Tonight's film in a season of outstanding feature films of the last ten years stars
Dirk Bogarde, Alfred Lynch

The wartime adventures of a British Sergeant-Major who waged a continuous one-man battle against the Germans.
Dirk Bogarde plays the inappropriately named Sergeant-Major Coward, the only English soldier to receive the Iron Cross, in this exciting Andrew and Virginia Stone production.
It was the first British venture of this American husband-and-wife team, whose other credits include The Decks Ran Red and The Last Voyage. As usual it is full of beautifully staged action sequences - a prison camp fire, an ammunition train being blown up, and the derailment of a train.

Contributors

Screenplay/director/producer:
Andrew L. Stone
Based on the biography by:
John Castle
Producer:
Virginia Stone
Charles Coward:
Dirk Bogarde
Pope:
Alfred Lynch
Irena:
Maria Perschy
Cole:
Nigel Stock
Unterofficer:
Reginald Beckwith
Schmidt:
Richard Marner

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