A BRAND NEW RESTORATIONCOMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORIGINAL WWII RAID A much-loved British classic, Michael Andersons 1955 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the center of Nazi Germanys industrial complex and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination. Split into two distinct sections, the film deals first with the fraught, but the ultimately successful development of a new bomb, by Dr. Barnes N. Wallis (Michael Redgrave). The second deals with the mission itself during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams, and its associated costs for the enemy and for the British airmen. Adapted by R.C. Sherriff from Paul Brickhills bookEnemy Coast Aheadand featuring superlative special effects photography by Gilbert Taylor (to say nothing of Eric Coatesstirring theme tune), The Dam Busters was Britains biggest box office the success of 1955