WAR AT SEA FILM SEASON: Cockleshell Heroes (1955) The Cockleshell Heroes is a 1955 British war film with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, David Lodge and José Ferrer, who also directed. Set during the Second World War, it is a fictionalised account of Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bordeaux Harbour. It was the first Warwick Film to be filmed in CinemaScope. Filming locations: Eastney Barracks, Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK Fort Brockhu

3.6K views · 31 reactions | The Adventures of Robin Hood is a British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes broadcast weekly between 25 September, 1955 and 1 March, 1959 on ITV. The shows stars Richard Greene as Robin Hood and Alan Wheatley as the Sheriff of Nottingham, along with Bernadette O'Farrell, Patricia Driscoll, Alexander Gauge, Archie Duncan, and John Arnatt. | Killer Cosmonaut | Facebook

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Acton swordsmiths filmed in 1955. | British Pathé

8.4K views · 245 reactions | Richard III is a 1955 British...