If you’re ‘mad as hell’ that the Academy couldn’t be arsed to give Peter Finch the Oscar until after he died, you’ll go for this Archers-helmed first of two WWII Finch films this week. Here he captains the Graf Spee, on the run from Anthony ‘veal’ Quayle’s HMS Ajax. They who also served – Bernard ‘M’ Lee, Patrick Macnee, Roger ”le Maitre’ Delgado, Christopher Lee, John Schlesinger, John Le Mesurier, Barry ‘der Valk’ Foster and a mercifully microphone-free Anthony ‘Merkin’ Newley.
Battle Of The River Plate, The
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