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Your support makes all the difference.633 Squadron (1964) has enjoyed an unqualified string of successes. Their luck changes when they are assigned to bomb a German rocket fuel plant, in Norway which is guarded by heavy anti-aircraft defences, and the plant is considered bomb-proof. Their nearly impossible mission is further complicated by a German air raid, the difficult approach to the target and the capture and torture of the underground leader who is assisting the squadron.
Director
Walter Grauman
Writers
Frederick E. Smith (Novel)
James Clavell (Screenplay)
Howard Koch (Screenplay)
Cast
Cliff Robertson … Wing Cmdr. Roy Grant
George Chakiris … Lt. Erik Bergman
Maria Perschy … Hilde Bergman
Harry Andrews … Air Vice Marshal Davis
Donald Houston … Group Capt. Don Barrett
Michael Goodliffe … Squadron Leader Frank Adams
John Meillon … Flight Lt. Gillibrand
John Bonney … Flight Lt. Scott
Angus Lennie … Flying Officer Hoppy Hopkinson
John Church … Flying Officer Evans
Barbara Archer … Rosie the barmaid at Black Swan Inn
Sean Kelly … Lt. Nigel
Julian Sherrier … Flight Lt. Singh
Geoffrey Frederick … Flight Lt. Frank
Suzan Farmer … WAAF Sgt. Mary Blake / Bissell
Johnny Briggs … Lt Jones
Trivia
- The German "fighters" were actually 4-seat Messerschmitt 108 "Taifuns," painted to look like Me-109 fighters.
- Cliff Robertson, an accomplished pilot, wanted to buy one of the Mosquitoes after filming had finished, as he was so impressed with the type. He was not permitted to do this but he later bought a Spitfire Mk IX which he owned until the late 1990s.
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