WEYMOUTH has made its debut in the new trailer for upcoming film Dunkirk.

In the new trailer Weymouth harbour, the backs of the hotels on the Esplanade and the Pavilion theatre can be seen. Award-winning actor Mark Rylance is seen casting off his small wooden boat on the way to help collect soldiers stranded at Dunkirk.

The new trailer ramps up the tension and drama, as in one scene a hospital ship sinks, after being bombed. Taboo actor Tom Hardy is seen piloting a plane and engaged in a dog fight.

The trailer starts with the words: “When 400,000 men couldn’t get home. Home came for them.”

It ends with an amalgamation of the famous speech by then Prime Minister Winston Churchill: “We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall never surrender.”

The World War Two epic, directed by Christopher Nolan, is one of the year’s most anticipated films and will hit cinemas on July 21 - a full year after the stars, including Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy, not to mention director Christopher Nolan, were spotted posing with fans.

Film crews spent several days in Dorset in July last year, filming scenes along Weymouth harbourside, where troops were seen marching and getting on and off boats. The crews also spent a few days filming at Swanage railway station, where One Direction pop fans were delighted to see Harry Styles filming.

The pop star was filming a scene where he was seen, dressed in army uniform, leaning out of a train carriage window and receiving food and drink from well-wishers on the station platform.

The new film tells the true story of Operation Dynamo and also stars Cillian Murphy and Kenneth Branagh.

During the Second World War, in 1940, Dunkirk was the scene of the mass evacuation of more than 338,000 allied troops, who had retreated in the face of the German advance. This evacuation, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was aided by the hastily-assembled fleet of more than 800 ships.

Filming of the Second World War blockbuster in Weymouth is believed to have already brought in millions of pounds for the local economy.