Gift Horse
Theatrical Release Date: TBC
Home Ent. Release Date: 04 Apr 2022
Cert:
PG
In 1940, the Royal Navy is frantically recruiting for WWII so pulls Lieutenant Commander Fraser out of retirement to captain the HMS Ballantrae, herself recently re-commissioned and lent by the Americans to a seriously under-resourced British Navy. Despite an inauspicious start and multiple repairs, Fraser crafts the ship and its crew into an efficient fighting force, culminating in a daring mission to destroy a French dockyard which is crucial to the Nazis in maintaining their formidable battleships. The climax of the film is a fictional account of the real-life St Nazaire Raid of 1942 AKA Operation Chariot – led by a ship very similar to the Gift Horse itself, and celebrated as The Greatest Raid of All.
- Compton Bennett
- Trevor Howard
- Richard Attenborough
- Sonny Tufts
- James Donald
- Bernard Lee
- Dora Bryan
- Hugh Williams
- Meredith Edwards & Sid James