Regarding the Bouncing bomb that the R A F Squadron took to Germany. Was not based on Fiction but Fact/ Richard Todd played the part of Guy Gibson who led the Squad
You realize of course, that George Lucas, totally 'borrowed' the whole "fjord attack sequence" in "633 Squadron", to use as the 'inspiration' for the "Death Star trench attack sequence" in "STAR WARS".
Pilots, they would say, doing an important job. But to me in 1967, they where heroes, the flying sequence, was true, Mosi's had a nasty habit of missing a spark ,hence Scottish training disaster.
Unlike the Battle of Britain that used Spanish FW and Me, this was the last air-certified Mosquitoes and this scene minus the cockpit close ups was real
I believe Lucas culled together scenes of this and other WWII movies of this kind and showed it the Effects guys and said I want this. They did there job in spades !
Cliff Robertson as a Canadian, Aussies, Scots, an Indian Sihk. A true reflection of bomber command. Even the Diversity warriors should be happy about this movie.
If they ever do a remake, I hope they don’t go over the top with CGI. You got to think, it was ahead of it time. Nationalities , American, English and Indian
Just saw Top Gun Maverick tonight. Throughout the film I was thinking if possible I would ask Cruise and his producers and director if they were inspired by "633 Squadron." Both great films. The long wait for the 1986 sequel was worth it. Outstanding film. It deserves to be a monster hit. Cruise has shown that heroism in film is not dead.
BOLTON WANDERERS come on to the pitch in their home games to the main music from this film... It's very inspirational - it inspired us to 21st place in the Championship in the season just ended... I first saw 633 Squadron in Wallasey in 1964 and have seen it countless times since... This and Zulu are both terrific British action films from 1964... A great year as that was when I saw THE BEATLES and fell in love with a girl for the first time....12 years old ... Great days.
@@spikespa5208 It was made a couple of years earlier when Spain was still using the Buchon operationally. A couple of other movies made round the mid `60`s used `108 Taifun`s (actually the French built version) as `109 substitutes.
Yet another British Film directed by Christopher Nolan....American films that covered the Vietnam War on the whole are fantastic... Apocalypse Now / Platoon / We Were Soldiers / Casualties Of War - these are quite brilliant films , as was Saving Private Ryan which deals with WW2.. One of my favourites on the subject of war is the Australian film Gallipoli... Very powerful film with J.M.Jarre providing the music... A terrific anti-war film is a Bosnian film called No Man's Land made in 2001...Recommend it highly if you can get a copy.
"You FOOL! you bloody Australian FOOLl!" "TRY and remember, I'm getting married!" "How can I forget? I was figuring on getting the widow for meself!"! "Bloody ABORIGINE!" Boy oh BOY! That Killebrand! He would've been a terrific "Black Sheep"! "He had absolutely NO RESERVATIONS, when it came to the ladies"!
The Germans used to give 1 medal if they shot down a Spitfire, but they gave 2 if they shot down a Mosquito shows how much respect they had for this amazing plane and the Bravery of the Pilots cropping tree tops at over 400 mph.
This really and truly needs to be remade following the book more closely! All originals are better than remakes sentimentally, if not actually. A remake closely along the lines of the book would be grand- and a rare remake that would be most different than the original! If only...!
Kind of common in British made war films by this point in the1960`s as in order to get funding to make them the production companies needed American backing. So that meant having to cast somebody familiar to American audiences in a major role was seen as a necessity in order to make money in the US box office. Cliff Robertson does a good job in this movie though so it`s not really a problem in this case.
People are getting dumber,Movies are getting worse No,seriously,even if you like the newest sci fi movies,you cannot say no to an old movie that uses freaking real planes
Part of the issue that we have in the modern day is that many of the aircraft such as the mosquitos used to film this film have either crashed over the years or ended up in museums as they become difficult to maintain and fly with a lack of spare parts. However each year we see many old warbirds and replicas enter restoration so hopefully in the near future we may be able to see some proper flying to a similar level as in many of these classics.
@@andrewwenzel3600 actually not true as there currently are 3 scratch built brand new mosquitos flying in the world today, could easily make a remake of the original film with just 3
Super silly British/American WWII yarn starring US actor Cliff Robertson as a Canadian Mosquito pilot and commander of a hush-hush secret squirrel bombing mission to Norway. A B-movie script cripples this flick which has a memorable theme tune. The idea is to bomb the side of a solid rock mountain with an earthquake bomb that needs to explode underground in order to work. Maybe they should have tried the bunker-busting "Disney" bomb instead. The rock slide is supposed to bury a Nazi rocket fuel factory. Unfortunately, German rocket fuel for the A4 (V-2) rocket was ethanol and water which could have been made anywhere and liquid oxygen that was made in a factory near the V-2 launch sites at Peenemunde, not in Norway. Robertson has to bomb his captured buddy to smithereens to keep him from talking to the Nazis after they capture and torture him but he gets to cuddle & kiss the friend's 1960s-looking blonde sister anyway. They don't make movies like this anymore. Best part of the movie is watching some of the real plywood Mosquitoes flying around.
Why do they have to have Americans in charge , were us Brits not good enough? Attack on the Iron Coast , X -craft , Great Escape , Escape to Victory , Heroes of Telemark and many more films show America won the war on their own.
The book is so much better. In the book a crew die while practicing the bombing run (to realistic for this movie), also the raid on the 633 airfield is far better in the book. The Messerschmidt's train for the raid for months. In a series of finely orchestrated aerial manouvres, they systematically attack the AA defenses. A brilliant display of personal bravery and airmanship by the Australian pariah (with blood on his hands) prevents the Germans from bombing any of the aircrews. This ultimately costs him his life... all this is sacrificed in the movie for a few cheesy action shots.
book? This is a movie. Well done , I like it because I watched it with my fathe r a double hit, you may say, .I also watched The great escape, fell in love, and bought a 350 honda, , ha, my first bike.
maidmoira Yep, I was probably being a judgemental douche again. I'm sure it was a great movie back in its day, although The Great Escape really is a classic!
Craticus Potts If I'm not mistaken, eight natives from the Indian Raj/modern-day India served in the RAF as fighter pilots, all on the Western Front. At least two of them survived the war. Now, this is based on my memories of a TV report, a few years ago. This might need some research to be verified.
Several aircraft preceded the Mosquito in the fighter-bomber role; Sopwith Salamander (WW1), Hurricane ("Hurribomber"), Typhoon, Fw-190, and a few others, but the Mossie was hard to beat.
@Simon 5000 Sentimentally, I liked the Mosquito, Corsair, Lightning and ME-109. Although coming out so late, if I had a choice(meaning my life depended on it!), I would go with the Thunderbolt. No WWII fighter was as tough. Not a pretty plane... but there was no other fighter so formidable; none with better pilot protection; EXTREMELY tough to shoot down, and was armed like an aerial King Tiger!
I saw this film when it first came out. A great film but after years of editing there are vital scenes missing. One is the torture by the Nazi Germans using a fire hose enema on the captive that had vital information of the squadron attack plans.
Most action scenes an insult to the intelligence. How many DH.98 wrecked in the making of this film? At least 2 for sure; RS718 and TA724. Maybe a third. Disgraceful.
They would have been scrapped in any case: the R.A.F. didn't bother to save many types of aircraft that served before and during WW2: the last Hampden bomber was left to be scrapped, and a replacement has been been made from wrecks.
back in 1973 I can not tell you how many times I watched this movie still one of the best movies made
Do it again to C.E.R.N at this rate mate and that Tower Of Babel at The EU he he Jc
Me too
Regarding the Bouncing bomb that the R A F Squadron took to Germany. Was not based on Fiction but Fact/ Richard Todd played the part of Guy Gibson who led the Squad
Simply the best aerial movie theme tune ever
100% agree! It's superb
Composed by Ron Goodwin, who also scored the movies Where Eagles Dare and Battle of Britain, among many others.
@@Markus_Andrew Tora! Tora! Tora!
Music to attack (1978 'TOS') Cylon 'raiders' & Basestars with!
Totally stirring musical score. Heartrending final fight sequence as their ranks are decimated.
You realize of course, that George Lucas, totally 'borrowed' the whole "fjord attack sequence" in "633 Squadron", to use as the 'inspiration' for the "Death Star trench attack sequence" in "STAR WARS".
Great tribute to the bloody excellent RAF people from all over the world that helped this island out in our hour of need.
Pilots, they would say, doing an important job. But to me in 1967, they where heroes, the flying sequence, was true, Mosi's had a nasty habit of missing a spark ,hence Scottish training disaster.
Unlike the Battle of Britain that used Spanish FW and Me, this was the last air-certified Mosquitoes and this scene minus the cockpit close ups was real
Mossies did NOT have yoke columns they had sticks except the bomber versions that had Spitfire/Hurricane type ones.
This film inspired the trench run in Star Wars A New Hope.
No, that was the film Dam Buster
@Dark Light Correct!!
@@Marafox2 The battle of yavin was inspired by that
@Dark Light No, it was The Mosquito Squadron, which utilized 633 footage. The trench run dialogue was inspired by the Dam Busters...
I believe Lucas culled together scenes of this and other WWII movies of this kind and showed it the Effects guys and said I want this. They did there job in spades !
The most outstanding aircraft of WW2 !
Nah, that was the B-29.
@@willowsloughdx Rubbish
The Wooden Wonder!
Cliff Robertson as a Canadian, Aussies, Scots, an Indian Sihk. A true reflection of bomber command. Even the Diversity warriors should be happy about this movie.
They couldn't do it with out a Yank in charge! LOL
Read "Mosquito" , the TRUE story of Mossie missions especially 105 Squadron.
The most lovely sound in the history of flight is the Merlin - more appealing in pairs.
I just love the sounds of those Merlin engines!!!
A thing of Beauty !!. 😊😊
If they ever do a remake, I hope they don’t go over the top with CGI. You got to think, it was ahead of it time. Nationalities , American, English and Indian
and australian
Yes exactly.
Just saw Top Gun Maverick tonight. Throughout the film I was thinking if possible I would ask Cruise and his producers and director if they were inspired by "633 Squadron." Both great films. The long wait for the 1986 sequel was worth it. Outstanding film. It deserves to be a monster hit. Cruise has shown that heroism in film is not dead.
Forget the spitfire. This plane was the best ! Shame there's not more movies showing it apart from this and mosquito squadron.
I agree. Mosquito was the best of them all.
The most aesthetically pleasing lines of any WWII aircraft. And deadly, to boot.
BOLTON WANDERERS come on to the pitch in their home games to the main music from this film... It's very inspirational - it inspired us to 21st place in the Championship in the season just ended... I first saw 633 Squadron in Wallasey in 1964 and have seen it countless times since... This and Zulu are both terrific British action films from 1964... A great year as that was when I saw THE BEATLES and fell in love with a girl for the first time....12 years old ... Great days.
The most outstanding aircaft of WW2 . . . no contest !
Love to watch those birds fly. Just a beautiful aircraft.
One of the deHavilland mosquitoes that was used in this film is at RAF Cosford museum
Imagine of three of those appeared at the mach loop! What a sight.
Who knew the Luftwaffe were using Me-108s to strafe airfields in the UK. Learn something new every day. /s
Guess they couldn't get any of the Spanish Air Force 109's. Didn't' have "The Battle of Britain" 's budget.
@@spikespa5208 It was made a couple of years earlier when Spain was still using the Buchon operationally. A couple of other movies made round the mid `60`s used `108 Taifun`s (actually the French built version) as `109 substitutes.
cliff robertson, great actor, RIP.
I loved as shame in the original batman series!!! Classic 1liners!!! Lol
the Force is strong with this one
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Roger Skipper bits of the Dam just coming down now⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Damn those mossies are a pretty aircraft
hollywood just cant make films like this anymore.
Didn't make this one, either.
This is a British Film you clown.
Dunkirk?
Yet another British Film directed by Christopher Nolan....American films that covered the Vietnam War on the whole are fantastic... Apocalypse Now / Platoon / We Were Soldiers / Casualties Of War - these are quite brilliant films , as was Saving Private Ryan which deals with WW2.. One of my favourites on the subject of war is the Australian film Gallipoli... Very powerful film with J.M.Jarre providing the music... A terrific anti-war film is a Bosnian film called No Man's Land made in 2001...Recommend it highly if you can get a copy.
Hollywood. HAHAHA!
That Mosquito that was shot up while landing was the very same tactic used to waste ME 262 's when they used up their fuel and had to land to refuel.
Great film. Wonderful music but that Mosquito...
The book is better than the film tbough.
Loved cliff Robertson as shame in batman!!! Classic one liners!!!!
"You FOOL! you bloody Australian FOOLl!"
"TRY and remember, I'm getting married!"
"How can I forget? I was figuring on getting the widow for meself!"!
"Bloody ABORIGINE!"
Boy oh BOY! That Killebrand! He would've been a terrific "Black Sheep"!
"He had absolutely NO RESERVATIONS, when it came to the ladies"!
What an aircraft.. Beautiful.. Star Wars Trench Run A new Hope
And now Top Gun Maverick. Amazing how great film's are sometimes revered and emulated.
The Germans used to give 1 medal if they shot down a Spitfire, but they gave 2 if they shot down a Mosquito shows how much respect they had for this amazing plane and the Bravery of the Pilots cropping tree tops at over 400 mph.
you got a medal and 500 marks plus 2 weeks leave if you shot down soviet PE-8s
@@tramlink8544 What's one of them ??
I'll fly with Singh i like him :)
A vary strategic rock
That French horn is a killer!!!!!
This really and truly needs to be remade following the book more closely!
All originals are better than remakes sentimentally, if not actually. A remake closely along the lines of the book would be grand- and a rare remake that would be most different than the original! If only...!
Is the book even in print nowadays?
Those are the same Bf-108 "fighters" that they used in Von Ryan's Express.
"You Fool ! You Bloody Australian Fool !"
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wouldn't be able to say that in this day and age..... worlds gone mad
You could call him an Australian fool, but calling him an Aborigine would get you thrown in jail.
George Chakiris hopelessly miscast as a Norwegian....but a great film.
I wrote to him and he was nice enough to send me some signed pictures. He had some good stories to tell about making the film :)
@@bodieofci5418 Bob's your uncle, mate!
We need a yank once again in a British war film.
Kind of common in British made war films by this point in the1960`s as in order to get funding to make them the production companies needed American backing. So that meant having to cast somebody familiar to American audiences in a major role was seen as a necessity in order to make money in the US box office. Cliff Robertson does a good job in this movie though so it`s not really a problem in this case.
Love the Mossies!
Nice that the Shark Bernado came good, forgave the death of Maria, and joined the real fight against the Nazi invasion. Respect.
Wait What? Maria Died?
what a great score.
I wonder how many lives there were lost in the Real 633 Squad even when practicing for the Real thing
This is a film based on ficton
There never was a 633 Squadron.
Trench Run scene from Star Wars George Lucas really loves this movie
People are getting dumber,Movies are getting worse
No,seriously,even if you like the newest sci fi movies,you cannot say no to an old movie that uses freaking real planes
Part of the issue that we have in the modern day is that many of the aircraft such as the mosquitos used to film this film have either crashed over the years or ended up in museums as they become difficult to maintain and fly with a lack of spare parts. However each year we see many old warbirds and replicas enter restoration so hopefully in the near future we may be able to see some proper flying to a similar level as in many of these classics.
@@andrewwenzel3600 actually not true as there currently are 3 scratch built brand new mosquitos flying in the world today, could easily make a remake of the original film with just 3
Looks like Wal was a bomber pilot 2.55 before he was crocodile Dundees business partner
Best ever!
Just don't go down any coal mines!
Super silly British/American WWII yarn starring US actor Cliff Robertson as a Canadian Mosquito pilot and commander of a hush-hush secret squirrel bombing mission to Norway. A B-movie script cripples this flick which has a memorable theme tune. The idea is to bomb the side of a solid rock mountain with an earthquake bomb that needs to explode underground in order to work. Maybe they should have tried the bunker-busting "Disney" bomb instead. The rock slide is supposed to bury a Nazi rocket fuel factory. Unfortunately, German rocket fuel for the A4 (V-2) rocket was ethanol and water which could have been made anywhere and liquid oxygen that was made in a factory near the V-2 launch sites at Peenemunde, not in Norway. Robertson has to bomb his captured buddy to smithereens to keep him from talking to the Nazis after they capture and torture him but he gets to cuddle & kiss the friend's 1960s-looking blonde sister anyway. They don't make movies like this anymore. Best part of the movie is watching some of the real plywood Mosquitoes flying around.
Cliff Robertson actually played an American; note the white Eagle Squadron shoulder 'patch' on his shoulders.
one of the great mis-castings of all time ; George Chakaris as a Norwegian resistance fighter!!! Good film though....
to close gillibrand, very good clip.
Pull up sooner!!!
Wish thy made films like that now
Why do they have to have Americans in charge , were us Brits not good enough? Attack on the Iron Coast , X -craft , Great Escape , Escape to Victory , Heroes of Telemark and many more films show America won the war on their own.
The book is so much better. In the book a crew die while practicing the bombing run (to realistic for this movie), also the raid on the 633 airfield is far better in the book. The Messerschmidt's train for the raid for months. In a series of finely orchestrated aerial manouvres, they systematically attack the AA defenses. A brilliant display of personal bravery and airmanship by the Australian pariah (with blood on his hands) prevents the Germans from bombing any of the aircrews. This ultimately costs him his life... all this is sacrificed in the movie for a few cheesy action shots.
book? This is a movie. Well done , I like it because I watched it with my fathe r a double hit, you may say,
.I also watched The great escape, fell in love, and bought a 350 honda, , ha, my first bike.
maidmoira Yep, I was probably being a judgemental douche again. I'm sure it was a great movie back in its day, although The Great Escape really is a classic!
I never thought there was a book! Thanks for mentioning that. I'm going to look for it.
what was the book, would like to read. yes I enjoyed both movies. Remind''s me of my dad.
In the film, one plane crashed in the practice run too.
戦後しばらくしてから中国国民党軍がモスキートを輸入したのだが、輸送船で運ぶ間に雨ざらしになっていたので中国に到着した時にはベニヤがふやけて使えものにならなくなっていましたとさ。
Haha remind me of War Thunder
01:06: Is the pilot from India? There's a certain something in his appearance that I find Indian.
yep.. the film did a great job of showing how diverse squadrons were.. god bless all off em
Craticus Potts
If I'm not mistaken, eight natives from the Indian Raj/modern-day India served in the RAF as fighter pilots, all on the Western Front.
At least two of them survived the war.
Now, this is based on my memories of a TV report, a few years ago. This might need some research to be verified.
No he's supposed to be Norwegian. The actor playing him, however, is George Chakiris, who is of Greek ancestry.
Mirrigold That explains it then. Sounds like an odd casting choice to be honest.
Well, it's a Hollywood production in the 1950s :) I don't think authenticity in casting was high on the priority list back then
I love it is good
The first two rolled right, Singh left?
Peel, 1,2 sing?
The Mosqueto was the first fighter bomber ... due you agree ? what a great plan
My Favourite war plane of all time De Havalland was a genius
Several aircraft preceded the Mosquito in the fighter-bomber role; Sopwith Salamander (WW1), Hurricane ("Hurribomber"), Typhoon, Fw-190, and a few others, but the Mossie was hard to beat.
Gary Lewis What the heck is a "Mosqueto"???
@Simon 5000 Sentimentally, I liked the Mosquito, Corsair, Lightning and ME-109.
Although coming out so late, if I had a choice(meaning my life depended on it!), I would go with the Thunderbolt. No WWII fighter was as tough. Not a pretty plane... but there was no other fighter so formidable; none with better pilot protection; EXTREMELY tough to shoot down, and was armed like an aerial King Tiger!
No! it was probably the first multi-role combat aircraft!
I saw this film when it first came out. A great film but after years of editing there are vital scenes missing. One is the torture by the Nazi Germans using a fire hose enema on the captive that had vital information of the squadron attack plans.
I saw this in a movie theatre in 1964. I would have remembered seeing that if it was there.
@@jonnyq680 Well it was edited out in many theaters so I was told. I remember what I saw!
could not have got better theme music,
5:46 Mossie hits the fuel bowser.
Hey there filming the practice runs at Mach Loop Whales.............
Whales?
No it's Scotland
いきなりジョージチャキリス。
Bloody aborigine! Love it! ❤😜
You know why abos have two different size nostrils? One for regular, and one for unleaded.
Wonder if that dialogue would be kept should they do a remake.
Kind of reminds me of "Damnbusters' " mascot dog who got run over...
Shooey McFee was my Nav'
sorry this movie was made in 1964
It’s really stupid to run directly away from an aircraft rather than at a 90° angle to it.
How many aircraft have you successfully dodged?
@@MichaelGThomas All of them!
@@jonnyq680 - so far, anyway
A Shame they were all killed performing the mission God Blees Them
It was only a story.
Most action scenes an insult to the intelligence. How many DH.98 wrecked in the making of this film? At least 2 for sure; RS718 and TA724. Maybe a third. Disgraceful.
They would have been scrapped in any case: the R.A.F. didn't bother to save many types of aircraft that served before and during WW2: the last Hampden bomber was left to be scrapped, and a replacement has been been made from wrecks.
Are they flying the Mach loop!!
sebrina97 yes I think they are
No it's in Scotland. In the cairngorns
FRONT VIEWS OF THE COCKPIT NO TAIL PLANE VISIBLE. BF 128'S NOT 109'S
Bf108s.
That final crash scene was a waste of a perfectly good classic Mosquito warbird! 👎
A model
I'm sorry, but no guy had hair like George Chakiris did in 1943!
That was a head scratcher...
‘Mokok
Vesuvious!
I’ve always loved this movie. But I’ve also always HATED the music.