The Red Beret (1953)

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This movie's opening prologue states: "This story tells of one small part of the war - The story of those men who joined the Parachute Regiment - Men from many different countries and creeds, who were to find themselves one day in a parachute training establishment. Only in the telling and in the spirit of the men themselves do history and fiction meet - even if we dare not show in this film what some of these men did in fact and in real life achieve. For nobody would ever believe it."
According to Richard Todd's 1986 auto-biography 'Caught in the Act', this film's director Terence Young's first choice for the lead role of Steve MacKendrick (aka Canada) was him, Richard Todd. Apparently, Todd thought the part was "far fetched" and turned it down. Todd did appear a couple of years later in another movie about the Second World War involving flying. He played Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. in The Dam Busters.
Some of the characters in the film are based on actual people, but their names have been changed in suggestive ways. Major Snow is based on the real John Frost. Major General Whiting represents the real General Browning (and the actor bears quite a resemblance to him).
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