Battle of Britain Film
 

is currently on More 4, finishes at 11:00pm . Just in case anyone is missing it. They don't make films like that anymore! :ok:

You can teach.................

Best bit is Susannah York in her webbing!!:ok:

How many hours on Spits Simon ?

Better make it 12 before Jerry has you for breakfast.

Most of the crash scenes, especially those into water looked very real. Were they simply bloody good models and film techniques?

Or did they really destroy a bunch of planes to make the film? :uhoh:

not sure about the water shots, but didn't they get some of the country's best craftsmen to build full size replica's (without engines of course!) simply to use on the airfield shots and be blown up ??

"The engine's overheating and so am I. Either we stand down or blow up. Now which do you want? "


or


"All I got was a bellyful of English Channel!"

or

"We're not easily frightened. Also, we know how hard it is for an army to cross the channel. Last little corporal who tried came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! And even then we won't listen. "



ok, I'm cheating ..... see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064072/quotes

Crash sequences were all models - as one of our PPRuNe colleagues will attest having flown the real Spitfires and Hurricanes for the cameras.
Don't you yell at me MR Warwick!

And as for the blowing up of a real live BoB hanger, and the subsequent hail of sh!t wot hit the fan (alledgedly), well, ..... :}

"Stop that Polish chatter and steer two four zero!

"Shut up in Polish!"

"We don't need a big wing, or a little wing, what we need is another 200 pilots."

Stand down A Flight.........

Repeat please! :}

Królewska Moc Powietrza nie jest lot cyrku.....

"One of you elite trying to land without wheels again"

"Undercarriage lever a bit sticky was it sir?"

"Well actually yes it was"

"Well I wouldn't tell the CO that sir if I was you"

BoB film
 

Try the following link and type in Battle of Britain. Lots of useful 'spotter info' !!


http://www.moviemistakes.com/

ATCO17

Stop that, you'll have BEagle all of a quiver ----

There is (or was) one of the prop Hurricanes from BoB in the hangar at Hooton Park. Like all props it looks a bit ropey in close-up, but from about twenty feet away the prop makers did a fantastic job as, as far as I could make out, they had cast fibreglass panels from the real thing to fit over the tubular frame.

A classic film, its one of those that you can never tire of!

Wait until Hollywood decides a re-make is required :{