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Trevor Howard once said of this movie: "The best thing about 'Cockleshell Heroes' was filming in Portugal. Beautiful country. While I was there, I ended up doing the commentary for a documentary about the country which won more awards than the film ever did. I went all over the world promoting the documentary. As for the film, well."
José Ferrer was generally felt to be miscast as a British officer, as well as too old for his character.
Operation Frankton was far less successful than the film makes out. It was also a monumental failure of planning and communication that led to the loss of eight British soldiers' lives.
The opening scenes of this movie include the reminiscences of Bill Sparks, one of the two survivors of the real-life Operation Frankton.
David Lodge (Marine Ruddock) thought that of his one hundred-plus movies, this was the best.
"Captain Thompson: Your men give the impression of being an ill-disciplined rabble. And they'll never get to Bordeaux that way. Major Stringer: Thompson, I'm training these men, not you. I'm the one who is responsible for the success or the failure of this project, so if you don't mind, we'll do it my way. It may not be the right way, or the Marine way, or the professional way, but it is my way and that's the way I want it."
"Captain Thompson: Keep the line straight, Boys."
