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David is their youngest son, a curly-haired Adonis who dreams like a Don Quixote. David's tragedy is that he confuses morality, dignity romance and passion. He fights Hitler at Dunkirk, still haunted by the memory of prep school bigotry and the hollow echo of his father's words, offered as a feeble solace: "Some of my best friends are anti-Semites...
...strikes heroic poses to in spire his men; Anthony Hopkins being stoical about occupying the most exposed position in the battle. That's all good stuff, but the rest of the film puts one in mind of the legendary English officer who, upon being asked to describe Dunkirk, replied: "My dear chap - the noise, the confusion...
...with the text and tenor of the play. Once one accepts the limitations of the director's concept, there is nothing to fault in the brio of the cast, the racehorse pace or the sense of battle-weary valor conveyed. There are different ways of showing British pluck. Dunkirk is not Agincourt...
...lieutenant colonel. By 1938, after more service in India and the Middle East, he was a major general. During the opening months of World War II, while France and Belgium were collapsing, his reputation was enhanced by his cool command of a division that escaped almost intact in the Dunkirk evacuation...
Doug Peach first came to Rubery Owen under very different circumstances. In 1940, his arm badly wounded in a machine-gun attack near Lille, France, Peach escaped by sea from Dunkirk and was hospitalized for nearly 2½ years. "My father was shot up in the first World War, and I used to hear him refer to the political slogan, 'A country fit for heroes to come back to.' Instead, when I was released, I was offered a clerical job for the magnificent sum of $8 a week. Well, I went to Rubery Owen as a spot welder...