During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.
William Russell
- Lieut. Poole
- (as Russell Enoch)
Gérard Oury
- Captain George Two
- (as Gerard Oury)
Ernest Bale
- Submarine Executive Officer
- (uncredited)
Christopher Rhodes
- German Officer
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaA single parked Bristol Beaufighter can be seen painted in Italian markings in several shots during the raid on the airfield.
- GoofsThe officers are shown wearing SAS parachute badges on their right arms, as they do today; however, during WW2 they wore them on the left breast.
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They Who Dare
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 and meandering adventure story that focusses way too much on the foibles of the characters rather than delivering a solid story. A decent cast - Denholm Elliott, Sam Kidd and Akim Tamiroff add little to neutralise the verbosity of the whole thing and the denouement didn't seem to quite make sense (or perhaps I just blinked?). It could easily lose twenty minutes of the preamble and focus more on the military and raiding aspects of the plot which I think would improve it greatly. As it is, Bogarde does enough to keep it moving - but only just.
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- Feb 26, 2023
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- Also known as
- Lewis Milestone's They Who Dare
- Filming locations
- Kalathos Bay, Rhodes, Greece(airfield scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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