LIMITED EDITION REPRINT TO CELEBRATE THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FILM AND TO MARK THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF VE DAY A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson's 1955 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the centre of Nazi Germany's 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 Guy Gibsons book Enemy Coast Ahead and featuring superlative special effects photography by Gilbert Taylor (to say nothing of Eric Coatesstirring theme tune), The Dam Busters was Britains biggest box office success of 1955.