Cockleshell Heroes

Cockleshell Heroes
Released By	VCI, Cinema Club and Columbia TriStar Home Video
Release Date	1996-03-04
Re-Release Date	1997-10-27
Running Time	109 minutes
Catalogue Number	CC7308
Rating

Cockleshell Heroes is a UK VHS release by VCI, Cinema Club and Columbia TriStar Home Video on 4th March 1996 and 27th October 1997. It got re-released by Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment on 6th October 2003.

Cast

• José Ferrer as Major Stringer RM
• Trevor Howard as Captain Hugh Thompson RM
• Christopher Lee as Lieutenant-Commander Dick Raikes, the submarine commander
• Dora Bryan as Myrtie
• Victor Maddern as Sergeant Craig RM
• Anthony Newley as Marine Clarke
• David Lodge as Marine George Ruddock
• Peter Arne as Corporal Stevens RM
• Percy Herbert as Marine Ted Lomas
• Graham Stewart as Marine Inness
• John Fabian as Marine Cooney
• John Van Eyssen as Marine Bradley
• Robert Desmond as Marine Paddy Todd
• Walter Fitzgerald as the Gestapo commandant
• Karel Stepanek as Assistant Gestapo Officer
• Beatrice Campbell as Mrs. Ruddock
• Sydney Tafler as Policeman
• Gladys Henson as Barmaid
• Jacques B. Brunius as French Fisherman
• Andreas Malandrinos as French Fisherman
• Judith Furse as WVS driver
• Patric Doonan as Sailor Claridge
• Sam Kydd as fish lorry driver (uncredited)
• Yana as Pub Singer (uncredited)

Opening (Original 1996 release)

• VCI: Cinema Club promo from 1996 [announced by Jonathan Kydd]
• Introduction by Marine Bill Sparks D.S.M.
• Columbia Pictures logo (1936-1976)
• Start of Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

Closing (Original 1996 release)

• End of Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
• The End
• Closing Credits Film
• Columbia Pictures logo (silent) (1936-1976)

Opening (2003 Re-release)

1. Columbia Tristar Warning Scroll
2. Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment logo
3. Columbia Pictures logo (1936-1976)
4. Start of Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

Closing (2003 Re-release)

1. End of Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
2. The End
3. Closing Credits Film
4. Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment logo
5. Columbia Tristar Warning Scroll

Trailers and info

The VCI: Cinema Club trailer from 1996 with clips of "Misery", "King of New York", "Hamburger Hill", "Young Guns", "City Slickers", "The Lawnmower Man" and "Hellraiser & Hellraiser 3".