ThiefHott Too much of everything

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

lord woodburry I saw the film 633 squadron when it was first released in '64. The film follows in the tradition of many great Air War Stories including DAWN PATROL. The score for the film is the finest musical adaptation or imitation of the revving aircraft engine. Cliff Robertson who was a good American actor played a credible leading role as wing commander. We did deem it odd that the British would make an American a Major in the Royal Air Force and appoint him wing commander. That could be the work of studios trying to sell the story here in the US.The perception of the colonial audience was that the mission portrayed was an attack on German Heavy Water experiments and that the attack took place earlier in the war. The scene of bombing the GESTAPO HQs came right out of an earlier film, 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)starring Jimmy Carney.Pre-Star Wars films like the live stage required a measure of "willing suspension of disbelief." I try to adjust myself to that before watching old films.

Tweekums This, along with The Dam Busters, is a classic film about the exploits of the RAF in the Second World War although unlike The Dam Busters this follows a fictional squadron. Not surprisingly for a film made in 1964 the special effects seem dated but the sight and sound or real Mosquitoes flying is something a modern film couldn't have.The squadron is given the task of destroying a factory making rocket fuel in Norway, to do this they will have to fly up a well defended fjord and bomb a fault on the mountain above the factory rather than attacking the building directly. The squadron is made up of a mixture of nationalities and lead by an American, Wing Cmdr. Roy Grant, who had enlisted in the RAF Eagle Squadron before the US joined the war. The are assisted by a Norwegian Navy Lieutenant, Erik Bergman, who brings them details of the factory site then later returns with the intention of enlisting the help of local resistance fighters to attack the anti-aircraft guns. There is also a subplot where Wing Cmdr. Grant gets romantically involved with Erik Bergman's sister.Like most British war films of the time this isn't about gung-ho heroics but about the sacrifice involved in warfare. The film was fairly well acted and the flying scenes were great, it is tragic that there are no longer any airworthy Mosquitoes here. Being a fairly old film it is suitable for younger viewers as there is no bad language and there isn't gore, even people shot with machine-guns manage to avoid bleeding. No review of this film would be complete without mentioning Ron Goodwin's excellent score which combined with the drone of the Mosquito's two Merlin engines is enough to give one goosebumps.

malboocock I've always enjoyed this film, ever since I saw it at the cinema in the sixties. The flying sequences are always thrilling and listening to those Merlins! However, my Father, who was in the RAF (617 Sqn) during the war always pointed out that there were no NCO pilots in the film. There were always Sergeant Pilots/Aircrew in an RAF squadron, even Guy Gibson had his fair share of NCO's flying. I have read some of the comments about Cliff Robertson's character. As far as I understood it, his character is an American who volunteered, before America became involved, flying for the Eagle Squadron. Hence the large American eagle badge on the upper sleeve of his tunic. Some commenters thought that the character may have been a Canadian. Robertson does play a Canadian in another war film (starring William Holden) but not this one. However, he does play an American Officer attached to the Britsh Army in another war film (starring Michael Caine and Denholm Elliot.) So as the Britsh Police would say "He's got previous."

ella-48 As WWII RAF pictures go, this piece of pure fiction is pretty awful, to be honest. The period detail is sloppy at best, and in the styling of the women's costume, hair and make-up they didn't even try: it's pure 1964! In the hope of making it sell in to US audiences, the Wing Commander is written as a Canadian, enabling them to cast American star Cliff Robertson. The rest of the Mosquito crews are written as a cross-section of the principal national and racial groups that made up Britain in the 60s. This is a laudable idea, quite far-sighted for its time, and truthful: during WWII the RAF was indeed crewed by people of all nations and races, from the British Empire and beyond, but this film points it up in such a contrived and heavy-handed way, it's embarrassing to modern sensibilities.So why on earth have I got 633 Squadron in my collection? Perhaps because, as a child in the 60s I noticed none of the above flaws and cared less. To me then, it was a thrilling adventure. Maybe that's the point: basically, it's a film for children.