My favourite film. Fascinating to hear how it was filmed. I had the pleasure of meeting Gp Capt Hamish Mahaddie in the 1980s. He assembled all the aircraft for the film.
Fantastic background with insightful interviews. The choreography of the flight sequences is spellbinding. All recounted with humour, despite the obstacles.
Great video. I did a video about the making of the movie based on the book about it but I had no interviews. Possibly the greatest military aviation movie ever made. Kudos to all involved. For the few!
They did a brilliant job...Everything about the end result was excellent...and its a timeless masterpiece...A film you can rewatch time and time again...If it had made the money it deserved from the movie goers in 1969 it would have been the first of many great WW2 aviation movies that we were ultimately denied...
Fascinating stuff. I was expecting to see some mention of the radio controlled models used. These were provided by Mick Charles who had a model shop in New Malden, Surrey, and later on in Ewell, in the 1970s and 80s in which he proudly displayed a couple of the models from the film and some large stills showing the models being filmed. Both shops were excellent! I believe his son worked there and took over the business eventually, but it closed down (a Google search just revealed) in 2018.
And all aerial shots were filmed on expensive 65mm film stock for clarity and perspective which is why it looks so good . It becomes 70mm when you add the soundtrack strip
Brilliant film, with awesome filming of beautiful historic aircraft! My ONLY possible criticism, is something that just couldn't be helped....The use of Merlin engined Bouchons instead of 'real' Daimler-Benz engined BF-109s. The sad reality is that even such a (relatively) short time after the end of the Second World War is that there just weren't enough 'real' ones available in flying condition! This being the same reason that there weren't any real Ju-87s doing the dive bombing. At least with the use of the CASA 2.111 instead of Heinkel He 111 was less noticeable. Nowadays there is absolutely NO chance that a similar film could be made using real aircraft, they'd all have to be computer simulated as there aren't enough Casa's, or Bouchons now!
My favourite film. Fascinating to hear how it was filmed. I had the pleasure of meeting Gp Capt Hamish Mahaddie in the 1980s. He assembled all the aircraft for the film.
Fantastic background with insightful interviews. The choreography of the flight sequences is spellbinding. All recounted with humour, despite the obstacles.
Great video. I did a video about the making of the movie based on the book about it but I had no interviews. Possibly the greatest military aviation movie ever made. Kudos to all involved. For the few!
They did a brilliant job...Everything about the end result was excellent...and its a timeless masterpiece...A film you can rewatch time and time again...If it had made the money it deserved from the movie goers in 1969 it would have been the first of many great WW2 aviation movies that we were ultimately denied...
@@lewistaylor1965 like so many comments on this great movie, a very valid point!
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Fascinating stuff. I was expecting to see some mention of the radio controlled models used. These were provided by Mick Charles who had a model shop in New Malden, Surrey, and later on in Ewell, in the 1970s and 80s in which he proudly displayed a couple of the models from the film and some large stills showing the models being filmed. Both shops were excellent! I believe his son worked there and took over the business eventually, but it closed down (a Google search just revealed) in 2018.
Thanks for you interesting comment, people of a certain age, will remember a model shop being the best shop in town!
And all aerial shots were filmed on expensive 65mm film stock for clarity and perspective which is why it looks so good .
It becomes 70mm when you add the soundtrack strip
A very knowlegeable comment 👏
Thank you guys, we appreciate the hardship, there will never be a movie like that thaty this century 😢
I watched this being filmed as I stood by the aeials at the Raf camp st marge rets bay cliffs. Great front seat
Im not jealous at all!
This film knocks other movies with aerial combat footage - many using CGI - into the proverbial cocked hat!
Indeed, CGI is great for dinosaurs.
Brilliant film, with awesome filming of beautiful historic aircraft! My ONLY possible criticism, is something that just couldn't be helped....The use of Merlin engined Bouchons instead of 'real' Daimler-Benz engined BF-109s. The sad reality is that even such a (relatively) short time after the end of the Second World War is that there just weren't enough 'real' ones available in flying condition! This being the same reason that there weren't any real Ju-87s doing the dive bombing. At least with the use of the CASA 2.111 instead of Heinkel He 111 was less noticeable. Nowadays there is absolutely NO chance that a similar film could be made using real aircraft, they'd all have to be computer simulated as there aren't enough Casa's, or Bouchons now!
@@24934637 agree as do many, that's why this movie is so loved.
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