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FREDH3
Feb 7, 2011, 12:53 PM
This movie is an old English comedy. The setting is outbreak of World War II. A scene to remember is a group of English gentlemen going over to Dunkirk to retrieve English soldiers from the beaches there. On the way over, in a classic Themes river yacht, they are attacked by a Germany Messerschmitt. One of the elderly men steps onto the bow with his side-by-side shotgun and repeats to himself a standard waterfowl hunting phrase “three lengths before the bill” and fires, knocking down the plane. On their way to Dunkirk they also discuss taking out “Big Herman” a gun the Germans have with range to cross the English Chanel. Other parts of the movie involve boot legging Whiskey though the English moors and poaching salmon. Classic English humor and a very entertaining film probably produced in the early fifties. Last time seen was sometime in the late seventies.