Overlord

Resource Information

The work Overlord represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Spokane Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Overlord

Statement of responsibility

Janus Films ; The Imperial War Museum presents ; produced by James Quinn ; a film by Stuart Cooper ; original screenplay by Christopher Hudson & Stuart Cooper ; directed by Stuart Cooper ; a Joswend Limited Production

Contributor

• Ball, Nicholas
• Harries, Davyd, 1937-
• Stirner, Brian
• Cooper, Stuart, 1942-

Actor

• Stirner, Brian
• Harries, Davyd, 1937-
• Ball, Nicholas

Screenwriter

• Cooper, Stuart, 1942-

Director

• Cooper, Stuart, 1942-

Subject

• Feature films
• Genovés, Juan, 1930-
• Operation Overlord -- Drama
• Short films
• Soldiers -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War films
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France | Normandy -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Drama
• Documentary-style films

Genre

• Short films
• War films
• Drama
• Documentary-style films
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

Drafted into the British army, young Tom Beddows leaves his parents and his beloved cocker spaniel and reports for military duty, arriving late because of a German air raid. In training camp, he makes friends with Jack and Arthur. They all wish the war would go away, so they could return to their parents and girlfriends. Finally ordered into combat, a sense of impending doom prompts Tom to write a consoling letter to be delivered to his parents instead of the official military notice. Stoic and fatalistic, he will be among the first troops to land in Normandy at the launch of Operation Overlord, the Allied offensive to push the Nazis out of France

Related

• Germany calling
• A test of violence
• Cameramen at war

Member of

• Criterion collection, 382

Awards note

Winner, 1975 Silver Berlin Bear Special Jury Prize: Stuart Cooper; Interfilm Award-Otto Dibelius Film Award: Stuart Cooper, at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Photographed by John Alcott ; edited by Jonathan Gili ; music composed by Paul Glass

Dewey number

791.43/72

Language note

Closed-captioned in English with optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

PerformerNote

Brian Stirner (Tom), Davyd Harries (Jack), Nicholas Ball (Arthur), Julie Neesam (the Girl), Sam Sewell (the Trained Soldier), John Franklyn-Robbins, Stella Tanner

Runtime

84

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

382

Technique

live action