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Rating: 6.1/10 by 57 users

633 Squadron (1964)

When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.

Directing:
  • Walter Grauman
  • Ted Sturgis
  • Connie Willis
Writing:
  • Howard Koch
  • James Clavell
  • Frederick E. Smith
Stars:
Release Date: Mon, Apr 06, 1964

Rating: 6.1/10 by 57 users

Alternative Title:
Escuadrón 633 - ES
Mission 633 - CA
Inferno nos Céus - BR
Eskadra 633 - PL

Country:
United Kingdom
United States of America
Language:
Deutsch
English
Runtime: 01 hour 42 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: norway, air raid, norwegian resistance
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Cliff Robertson
Wing Commander Roy Grant
George Chakiris
Lieutenant Erik Bergman
Maria Perschy
Hilde Bergman
Harry Andrews
Air Vice-Marshal Davis
Donald Houston
Group Captain Don Barrett
Michael Goodliffe
Squadron Leader Frank Adams
John Meillon
Flight Lieutenant Gillibrand
John Bonney
Flight Lieutenant Scott
Angus Lennie
Flying Officer Hoppy Hopkinson
Scot Finch
Flying Officer Bissell
John Church
Flying Officer Evans
Barbara Archer
Rosie, barmaid at the Black Swan Inn
Sean Kelly
Lieutenant Nigel
Julian Sherrier
Flight Lieutenant Singh
Geoffrey Frederick
Flight Lieutenant Frank
Johnny Briggs
Lieutenant Jones
Suzan Farmer
WAAF Sergeant Mary Blake / Bissell
Anne Ridler
SS Interrogator
Peter Kriss
Lieutenant Maner (uncredited)
Cavan Malone
Ericson, Norwegian Resistance (uncredited)
Richard Shaw
Johanson, Norwegian Resistance (uncredited)

John Chard

Fall in for the blood pumping joy of De Havilland's Mosquitoes. A WW2 squadron of Mosquito bombers are training for a perilous mission to bomb a cliff face in Norway; with the aim to bring the cliff tumbling down on the German arms factory below it. 633 Squadron may not be a film for the War enthusiast purists? But the work done here to make this film a winner should never be understated. In this day and age it's often forgotten how these type of film's relied on good aerial photography, deft model work, and a stirring score. All of which this picture contains, thus making 633 Squadron more than a wet day crowd pleaser. Sure the intermittent scenes between the training sequences and the actual mission are mere filler, and the subplots obviously halt the flow of the movie (hello romance, hello sacrifice clichés); but what they do do is give a sort of added feel to the proceedings come the mission at the end. We do after all have to have some sort of affinity with the characters putting their lives at risk, and we get that here courtesy of a well written first half. Also boasting (in my opinion naturally) one of the greatest scores used in a War movie, courtesy of Ron Goodwin, the film triumphs because the ending is all that you hope for. In truth it's never in doubt given the build up we are given (and being the normality for many genre pieces), but with little dashes of poignancy and slivers of adrenalin rushes, the impact is akin to a jingoistic chest thudding. Besides which, if you can't get a tingle on your neck watching the Mosquitoes fly over the Norwegian fjord? Well you got no blood in your body say I. 7/10


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