Trivia / Dunkirk (1958)

• Dawson Casting: John Mills was fifty years old at the time of filming. The British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 were a professional army, not conscripts (conscription (the draft) only began after Dunkirk to recoup numbers), so John Mills would be beyond the retirement age for a soldier and would have been considered too old even for conscription, the maximum age being forty-five. The only soldiers aged fifty or above would have been senior officers, not frontline soldiers, and certainly not Corporals.
• Uncredited Role: Liz Fraser as a worker in Holden's factory.

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