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Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. It is directed by Oliver Parker and set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an elegant German spy, posing as a journalist, reporting on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon.
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Dad's Army: Directed by Oliver Parker. With Mark Tandy, Russell Balogh, Andrew Havill, Heinz. The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
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- Comedy, War
- Oliver Parker
- 2016-02-05
Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and originally broadcast on BBC1 from 31 July 1968 to 13 November 1977.
Dad's Army review: Did they like it up ’em? Now pay attention... Michael Gambon is glorious as Godfrey and Toby Jones charms as the deluded Captain Mainwaring in a "fond, flag-waving if...
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is a 2016 British film based on the BBC sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Oliver Parker, the film was released on 5th February 2016 in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures. It was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the United Kingdom on 13th June 2016.
The film is set during 1944, with the end of the Second World War in sight. In Walmington-on-Sea, Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard suffers from a lack of confidence, lack of usefulness and plenty of low motivation. This is until a glamorous journalist, Rose Winters arrives to cover a report on the platoon's exploits and activities, including patroling a base in Devon. All the men are riled up with her presence, especially Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson, causing a stir with the townsfolk, especially the platoon's wives.
Meanwhile, MI5 have discovered a radio signal transmitted from Walmington towards Berlin, apparently the work of a spy. This gives the Home Guard a chance to make a real presence in the war, so the platoon try to catch the spy. Rose informs the platoon that Sergeant Wilson is the spy. Mainwaring believes her and arrests Wilson.
•Jones' butcher's van from the original TV series, on loan from the Dad's Army Museum at Thetford, was used for the film.
•Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring
•Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson
•Tom Courtenay as Lance-Corporal Jones
•Bill Paterson as Private Frazer
•Daniel Mays as Private Walker
•Michael Gambon as Private Godfrey
Feb 5, 2016 · A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
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Dad's Army is a film directed by Oliver Parker with Mark Tandy, Russell Balogh, Andrew Havill, Heinz .... Year: 2016. Original title: Dad's Army. Synopsis: A cinema remake of the classic sitcom _Dad's Army (1968)_.
