Invasion Quartet
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Director Jay Lewis Music director Ron Goodwin Produced by Ronald Kinnoch Language English | 5/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Jack Trevor Story , John Briley Release date September 1961 Cast Bill Travers , Spike Milligan , Grégoire Aslan , John Le Mesurier , Thorley Walters , Maurice Denham Similar movies The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 , Fury , Edge of Tomorrow , Captain America: Civil War , Avatar Tagline The Funniest Foursome That Ever Fouled Up Der Fuhrer! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Invasion Quartet is a 1961 British World War II comedy/drama that was publicised as a parody of The Guns of Navarone. It was directed by Jay Lewis and starred Bill Travers and Spike Milligan.
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Plot
Two wounded officers, one British and one French are deemed unfit and surplus to requirements. They leave their hospital and together with an explosives expert suffering from mental illness and a Colonel thought too old to serve in the Army make their way to France to destroy a long range German artillery piece.
The plot has similarities to the exploits of Commando Sgt Peter King and Pte Leslie Cuthbertson.
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Reception
According to MGM records, the film made a loss of $119,000.
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