During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
Though the obvious comparisons that come up when watching "Dunkirk" are past epics like the gritty "Saving Private Ryan" and "Atonement," which has the incredible five-minute single shot of the Allied forces at Dunkirk, I couldn't stop thinking about the little-seen 1975 D-Day movie "Overlord," by director Stuart Cooper.
Pressure is perhaps best viewed as another piece in the cinematic mosaic of D-Day – The Longest Day, Overlord, The Big Red One, and Saving Private Ryan…