The Fourth Arm (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
SOE agents are sent on a mission to destroy a V1 flying bomb facility, situated in an underground bunker un Northern France. Ordinary people are recruited and subjected to highly demanding training in the seclusion of a large house in the country. They are each given a code name comprising the French word for a different type of bird, such as 'Hibou' and 'Chardonneret'. They train for a parachute jump, and perform a trial operation in a real French village. Can their extraordinary training give such ordinary people a real chance to succeed?
Direction Viktors Ritelis · Andrew Morgan · Nicholas Renton · Peter Duguid
Cast Paul Shelley · Philip Latham · Rob Edwards · Dean Harris · Susan Kyd · Michael MacKenzie · Carole Nimmons · Neil Stacy · Robert Swales · Leonard Preston · Eve Polycarpou · Stuart Blake · Edward Peel · Gregory de Polnay · Gerald James · Paul Chapman · Terry Forrestal · Boris Isarov · Terence Brook · Christopher Ravenscroft · Steve Ubels · Lex van Delden · Ernst Walder · John Wyman · Yves Aubert · Keith Bartlett · Norman Bird · Richard Braine · Graham Callan · Sarah Crowden · Leon Eagles · David English · Christopher Farries · Tim Faulkner · Christopher Good · Constantine Gregory · Stefan Gryff · Norman Hartley · Brian Hawksley · Roy Herrick · John Hug · Peter Hutchinson · Jasper Jacob · Frank Jarvis · Jerry Judge · Diana Katis · Russell Kilmister · Arthur Kohn · Hugh Martin · Jenny McCracken · Michael Mellinger · Gareth Milne · Juliette Mole · Maurice O'Connell · Maureen O'Farrell · Marella Oppenheim · Brian Osborne · Richard Owens · John Rapley · Ray Roberts · Alec Sabin · Johnny Shannon · John Vine
Soundtrack Michael Reed · Angela Richards
Screenplay John Brason · Gerard Glaister · Brian Finch · Michael J. Bird · Alfred Shaughnessy
Original title The Fourth Arm (TV Series)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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