Battle of Britain
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List Price: $14.95
Features
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 24 October, 1969
Video Release : 07 May, 1996 |
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Battle of Britain Customer Reviews
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Britain's Big Patriotic Movie
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Once again RAF Spitfires, Hurricanes, and Luftwaffe ME109's swirl in deadly dogfights over the White Cliffs and green fields of summer, 1940, as Ron Goodwin's stirring music underscores the action. About 100 vintage fighter and bomber aircraft were assembled for the filming (big stars in their own right) but, for me, it's all about the human cast: Lord Olivier as the dour, irascible and eccentric Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding (who, after the war, credited the ghosts of his deceased wife and lost airmen with guiding him to victory); Trevor Howard as the aggressive New Zealander, Air Vice Marshal Keith Park, who commanded fighters in the corner of Britain most susceptible to German attack; Sir Michael Caine as a young flight leader in the "Millionaires' Squadron" (one of whom actually purchased a neighboring gas station so squadron members could have access to "petrol" for their sports cars); Nigel Patrick; Christopher Plummer; Sir Michael Redgrave; Sir Ralph Richardson; Robert Shaw; and Susannah York.
In spite of the movie's dozen, or so, famous flubs, it works as entertainment, it's surprisingly accurate (although time-compressed), and even includes a very proper little love story (York and Plummer).
"Never have so many owed so much to so few". Amen. |
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