Battle Of Britain Tonight!!!
 

Hoorah for Channel 5! The famous Battle of Britain movie is on TV tonight - and it's advertised as being in Widescreen!! Satellite Channel 105 for those of us with what chum vascodagama calls 'Council house TV'.......

BEagle Towers will once again reverberate to the sound of Merlins, the Luftwaffe march........and there will, of course, be the sight of Susannah York in her undies to drool over...aaarrgh, nurse, the medication please!!!

Just realised it's over 34 years since I saw the premiere in Nottingham as a Flt Cdt!!

Edited to add: Starts at 2000 and ends at 2235. Videoplus+ code is 12915042 in case you want to make a back-up tape for your own personal use if you think you might doze off.....or just want to freeze frame on certain items:E

Any idea what time. Mrs Fence is currently glued to the telly watching Hollybollocks and I cant get a word in edgeways.

Not that I am complaining with all the lovely girlies on it:E

From Spring Chicken to ****ehawk in thirty minutes.

Dagger Dagger Dagger!

I just hope Ch5 don't bow to the PC brigade and give us the Ni66er version not the come here boy version.

Hum
 

Isnt that the Dambusters?

The BofB also has the classic lines:

Following the nazi diplomats fascist tirade threatening England with devastation at the hands of the Luftwaffe, dear old Ralphie Richardson pours him a cup of tea and replies

"sorry, its 2 lumps you take isnt it?" :D


tak a tak a tak a tak a

"Ive seen it. Its a smelly old shack full of dead flies"

"Help yourselves everybody, theres no fighter escort"

"Get them up... get them up...": Trevor Howard, in persona Keith Park. Flies in the face of my preferred edict "Get them down, get them down", etc.

Can't receive C5 (Sinclair?) therefore might get video recording out in sympathy to help beer digestion!

Well - the movie was in the best quality I've seen since the premiere!

Pity about the commercial breaks and C5 news though:(

And for you F3 types


-Nick

Most poignant quote

"Our young men have to shoot down their young men at a rate of 4 to 1"

My fave bit is the early morning scene where the guys leave the kids asleep in the cottage and exit the door.

The door is a '60s special large sheet of glass in the upper half and the door frame carries an 'Avon Lady' special bellpush not yet seen in 1940.

Iain McShane excels as the Sgt pilot and the final 'dogfight' extended sequence comes to mind every single VMC day entering the hold at BIG (and I'm serious!)

It must be the fp in me although farepayers not taxpayers now furnish the mortgage...

mmmmmmm... must be about 100 Entry then.........

Something I've always wondered... at the end, there is a listing of all the nationalities who flew for the RAF. Included in this listing is one Israeli- 8 years before the formation of the state of Israel! Ever since I first saw the film (mid 70s? I was pre-teen at the time, anyway) I've wanted to know who he was...
Bows head and waits for the chorus of "Get a Life!"

Capt Homesick,

This used to intrigue me too, 1940 would make him a PALESTINIAN would it not?

reynoldsno1 - close, actually 99 Entry B Sqn. My Flt Cdr appeared in the movie!

Yup - a great movie but that modern doorbell always stuck in my mind too! Sad or what?

Remember looking out of my classrooom window as a young lad and seeing a large formation of the vintage aircraft (spits, hurricanes, hispanos) flying around. Lots of filming at Duxford which was not too far away - or perhaps enroute to Pinewood?

Gather that the hangar explosion was at Duxford, and they have regretted the demolition of that historical building ever since...

And yes, the fine display of webbing by Ms York...no more postings for a while....

Didn't watch it this time round,had to go out, but I seem to recal Susana Yorks skirt length and general appearance owed much more to the sixties than the forties, and the chaps hair length would have raised a few eyebrows as well.

It was a very good pin-sharp print which Ch5 used last night. So sharp that you could even see the fine texture of Susannah York's cheeks.

Though to which particular cheeks I refer I shall leave for you to imagine:E

Herr Draper,


I have it on good authority from another thread that you were watching th "bollix" on another channel.:confused:

Stupendous, fantastic film. I remember, as a 4 year old, it being made when I lived in Brighton, dog fights going on overhead. Left a lasting memory I can tell you.

Lighten up guys, if you want to nit pick you can have a field day, 4 bladed props, 6 stub exhausts, internal windscreen armour on the spits, cannon bulges etc. If you want to extend it then you can get into real triv; incorrect mae wests hair styles and lots more. But then hey who cares, it's a brilliant film that has an atmosphere that is unique, and according to my dad who was 14 in 1940, accurately captures the feel rather well.

I didn't bother watching it, I now have it on DVD! Region 1 unfortunately. Through my surround sound system the furnitre shakes and the moggie scarpers, bl00dy marvellous.

And welcome home sir, undercarriage lever a little sticky?

Well yes, as a matter of fact it was.

well don't tell the CO that, not if I were you........