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Release Date: 1964 Cast: Harry Andrews, Scott Finch, John Church, Maria Perschy, Sean Kelly, Angus Lennie, Cliff Robertson, John Meillon, Donald Houston, Michael Goodliffe, George Chakiris, John Bonney
Categories: Movies, War film, Action, Action/Adventure, Film adaptation, Combat Films 633 Squadron is a 1964 British film which depicts the exploits of a fictional Second World War British fighter-bomber squadron. It was based on a novel of the same name by Frederick E. Smith, published in 1956, which itself drew on several real Royal Air Force missions. The film was directed by Walter Grauman, produced by Cecil F. Ford for the second film of Mirisch Productions UK subsidiary Mirisch Films for United Artists. It stars Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris and Maria Perschy. 633 Squadron was the first aviation film to be shot in colour and Panavision wide screen.
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633 Squadron is a 1964 British film which depicts the exploits of a fictional Second World War British fighter-bomber squadron. It was based on a novel of the same name by Frederick E. Smith, published in 1956, which itself drew on several real Royal Air Force missions. The film was directed by Walter Grauman, produced by Cecil F. Ford for the second film of Mirisch Productions UK subsidiary Mirisch Films for United Artists. It stars Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris and Maria Perschy. 633 Squadron was the first aviation film to be shot in colour and Panavision wide screen.
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's No 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. No 633 Squadron is under the command of Wing Commander Roy Grant, an ex-Eagle Squadron pilot (Americans serving in the RAF before America entered the war).
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, a job for No 633 Squadron's fast and manoeuvrable de LESS
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