….So they did’nt have 633 squadron at the video store today (you can order it), but they had this ‘Mosquito Squadron’ that I’m watching now…what’s the general consensus on this flick? A dud, or a good flick? So far the flying seems good if not spectacular, the old Barnes Wallis footage is interesting….
Mark
By: STORMBIRD262 - 31st October 2017 at 10:17
I loved the mossie’s but hated the shiit film, could have been more real, and based on a REAL raid and g’day tex mate long time
By: AlanR - 31st October 2017 at 06:44
It’s one of those films which doesn’t improve with age. Some pretty crap acting !… Ok a lot !!
By: HALCYONMAN - 30th October 2017 at 13:07
Remember it being filmed here 1968 [young lad then] and for the first time I had chance to see/got shown the Chateau and surrounds up close thanks to a business visit a short while ago I watched the film again to see the buildings.
By: DazDaMan - 29th October 2017 at 20:03
It’s a pretty mince film, but I do have it in the stash, along with the other Oakmont “classic”, The Thousand Plane Raid. How many times can you recycle the same Taifun footage from 633 Squadron?! :highly_amused:
By: Bazza333 - 29th October 2017 at 15:52
I have a soft spot for this film because of where some of it was filmed. The “French chateau” still exists just south of Camberley and you can still walk around the surrounding area.
By: Denis - 28th October 2017 at 23:33
An absolutely awful film, so much better could have been done at the time with a proper storyline.
By: thedawnpatrol - 28th October 2017 at 20:10
Just watched the end, it was as bad as I remember!
Jules
By: Robert Whitton - 5th April 2005 at 10:35
Its not a myth about Scots being tight with money. Really we are just “careful” so that we can spend it on important things like aircraft. I must admit that once I had to walk home 7 miles after the driver of the last bus home said he had no change and I refused to pay him any extra. I certainly sobered up on the walk in the snow and found my hand covered in blood where I had been using it to “navigate” along the walls and bushes. I learnt to have the right money ready from that. And before you ask I do leave a tip when a suitable level of service has been given.
By: Flood - 5th April 2005 at 09:58
Wooden ‘planes, wooden acting.
Flood
By: Andy in Beds - 5th April 2005 at 09:51
I always thought David McCallum’s haircut in Mosquito squadron was about the most innaccurate haircut in the history of cinema.
The budget being apparently insufficient to run to a hair-dresser.
Nearly as bad as casting George Chakiris as a Norwegian in 633 Squadron.
However, there is apparently a small Greek community who live just out Oslo.
Descended from survivors of a Greek shipwreck.
So that explains that one away.
It’s this sort of detail that winds me up the most in films.
Later
A.
PS I always thought David McCallum was weaselly little tw*t.
He lives in America, I can’t say I’m sorry.
By: Moggy C - 5th April 2005 at 09:42
… my last visit to a Cinema (in central London) was £12 each!! So no more Cinema!
Don’t they have cinemas in Scotland?
Also aren’t you perpetuating the myth of the Scot ‘careful’ with his money 🙂 🙂
Moggy
By: Robert Whitton - 5th April 2005 at 09:07
Any Film with flying Mosquitos is good. I just fast forward the soppy bits. Also my copy on DVD was about £7.oo and my last visit to a Cinema (in central London) was £12 each!! So no more Cinema!
By: Snapper - 5th April 2005 at 08:08
It’s the 5th today isn’t it?
By: Ant.H - 11th January 2004 at 15:02
“Da-da-da–da dah dah dahhhhhhh!!” *stuka noises etc* 😉
By: DazDaMan - 11th January 2004 at 13:25
“Break for the fjord. Gillbrand, break for the fjord!” 😉
By: Septic - 9th January 2004 at 22:45
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Firebird
[B]Hmmmm……….
Just wondering if this is in fact taken at Bovingdon during the filming of Mosquito Squadron as there are 3 Mossies, and more tellingly you can see the nose of a MR3 Shackleton on the left, which I know was used to film to opening low level aerial sequences of Mosquito Squadron………
I think you are right Firebird, I originally thought this was an earlier 633 sqd photo, due to the fact that I had believed that the shack should have been in RAE markings.
Then I remembered the Mosi’s were coded at Biggin Hill in 63.
By: Hatton - 9th January 2004 at 20:24
JDK, you are right about the end of BOB not been your typical hollywood ending. This is what makes it brilliant in my opinion. Those last few moments of the the film probably gave the audience time to digest what they had jsut seen before mindlessly stomping out of there seats as they would have done with a straight cut to the credits. The director Guy Hamilton used the oppurtunity to display the number of lives lost in the battle. It gives a moment for thought.
By: DazDaMan - 9th January 2004 at 18:17
Most of them are video – including Piece of Cake, although I did manage to procure a region 0 DVD copy 😀
By: trumper - 9th January 2004 at 18:10
🙂 Daz,where did you get them from,i did’nt know Piece of Cake was out,is it region 2? Ta:)
By: DazDaMan - 9th January 2004 at 18:08
God, what have I got on video/DVD??
633 Squadron
Aces High
Battle of Britain
The Blue Max
Dark Blue World
The Great Waldo Pepper
Hell’s Angels
The Dawn Patrol
First of the Few
Piece of Cake
Tuskegee Airmen
Twelve O’Clock High
Memphis Belle (both versions)
The Dam Busters
Mosquito Squadron
A Bridge Too Far
Top Gun
Tora! Tora! Tora!
I think that’s it…! 😀
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