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Jun 18, 2018 · Invasion Quartet 1961 1h 27m Comedy List Reviews Injured officers (Bill Travers, Spike Milligan, John Le Mesurier) sneak out of a hospital and cross the English Channel to silence a Nazi cannon.
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Invasion Quartet: Directed by Jay Lewis. With Bill Travers, Spike Milligan, Grégoire Aslan, John Le Mesurier. Spike Milligan and his friends decide to go to occupied France to silence a large German gun that is firing across the channel.
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Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Isabel Quigly The Spectator. There is a general air of charades and uncoordinated styles, as everyone was acting in what he thought the was, and the...
Invasion Quartet is a 1961 British World War II comedy-drama film directed by Jay Lewis and starring Bill Travers and Spike Milligan. It was publicised as a parody of The Guns of Navarone. The plot has similarities to the exploits of Commando Sgt Peter King and Pte Leslie Cuthbertson.
Invasion Quartet has all the attributes of a cult classic, superb writing by an Oscar winning scriptwriter (John Briley) excellent direction from Jay Lewis whose light hand tempts superb erformances from a good spread of fine actors, many at their peak.
This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied France to destroy an obnoxiously large, loud, and destructive enemy gun.
Mar 20, 2022 · Director Jay Lewis’s 1961 British World War Two comedy-drama film Invasion Quartet is based on a story by Norman Collins and stars Bill Travers, Spike Milligan, John le Mesurier, and Grégoire Aslan.
