I have just watched the 1943 British film ‘Sabotage Agent’ which was also known in the USA as ‘The Adventures of Tartu’. It stars Robert Donat as a spy in a Nazi-occupied Czech town where he’s posing as a Hungarian Nazi.
Two interesting aviaition scenes are in the film, he flies to Europe from Britain in a Bristol Blenheim but its scene is brief and may well have been stock footage.
Much more interesting – and BEWARE AS THIS IS A SPOILER
His character and two others escape to Malta aboard a stolen Junkers 88. Now at first I assumes again the footage was stock, but then you actually see Donat run and climb aboard the German bomber. Fantastic. I have to assume this was one from a captured enemy aircraft flight of the RAF? Also seen was a Me110 which takes off to chase them and it too looked like it was filmed for the movie and not just stock footage.
Does anyone here know more? Did the RAF allow two captured aircraft to be used for this film? It’s not a bad movie either.
By: Dave Homewood - 27th October 2008 at 05:16
Thanks TEEJ, so they were RAF captured machines They took more than photos as the site says, they actually filmed them both on the ground and taking off.
Funnilly enough I have just been watching Clark Gable’s excellent documentary “Combat America” which also shows two of that unit’s aircraft and is mentioned on the link above.
By: TEEJ - 27th October 2008 at 03:54
Details at the following.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/82/a8404382.shtml
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October 27, 2008 at 2:49 am