In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
1992A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperienced battalion of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment launched a doomed attack and was defeated with heavy casualties by veteran German SS troops. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.
Acted in
Terence McKenna
as Narrator
Roman Jarymowycz
as interviewer
Jacques Dextraze
as Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
Sydney Radley-Walters
as Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
Patrick Goyette
as Joseph Le Boutillier
Nicholas Campbell
as Guy Simonds
Adrian Hough
as German Officer
Wayne Robson
as Donald Pearce
Nigel Bennett
as Kurt Meyer
Stewart Arnott
as Harry Foster