A film partly shot on Camber Sands in 2024 goes on general release this week, with showings at Rye Kino. Pressure tells the story of Britain’s chief meteorological officer James Stagg, whose job it was to monitor the UK’s unpredictable weather conditions ahead of the Normandy invasion during the second world war.
Extras were filming in the rain on Tuesday 1 October 2024 recreating soldiers landing on the beaches in Northern France in 1944. Marquees and trucks took over the Western car park at Camber all week to support the production by Studio Canal.
Pressure is based on the West End stage play written by and starring David Haig. In the film version, Andrew Scott takes the lead role as Stagg, with Brendan Fraser playing American General Eisenhower and Damian Lewis as his British counterpart Field Marshall Montgomery.
It’s not the first war time film to be shot at Camber. Monuments Men and Dunkirk have also used the dunes and beach as a filming location.
Image Credits: Amanda English .
There was a film made by students from Rye Secondary Modern School in 1965 featuring scenes filmed on Camber Sands. The film was called, ‘Footprints in the Sand’. It cost a shilling to watch with the takings given to the charity, ‘Guide dogs for the Blind’.
I wonder if there’s anyone who remembers it?
I was at Rye Secondary Modern at around that time and it vaguely rings a bell. I wonder which teacher would have been in charge of its making? Mr Dipper used to run a lunchtime event on Thursdays, called Rock, Jive and Twist, and we paid a 1/- to go in and dance like mad!