![]() ![]() After Pearl Harbour the Eagle Squadrons were eventually transferred to the USAAF but some Americans stayed in the RAF so it is not totally implausible to have an American leading an RAF squadron. A number of Americans did fly for the RAF during WW2. The script did make it clear that Grant was an ex - Eagle Squadron pilot. This was changed to Wing - Commander Roy Grant for the film. In the original 1956 novel the central character was Wing- Commander Roy Grenville. I am a great fan of "633 Squadron" and have read a few articles about the making of the film so I can correct a few errors in previous postings. Besides which, if you can't get a tingle on your neck watching the Mosquitoes fly over the Norwegian fjord? Well you got no blood in your body say I. In truth it's never in doubt given the build up we are given (and being the normality for many genre pieces), but with little dashes of poignancy and slivers of adrenalin rushes, the impact is akin to a jingoistic chest thudding. Also boasting (in my opinion naturally) one of the greatest scores used in a War movie, courtesy of Ron Goodwin, the film triumphs because the ending is all that you hope for. We do after all have to have some sort of affinity with the characters putting their lives at risk, and we get that here courtesy of a well written first half. Sure the intermittent scenes between the training sequences and the actual mission are mere filler, and the subplots obviously halt the flow of the movie (hello romance, hello sacrifice clichés) but what they do do is give a sort of added feel to the proceedings come the mission at the end. All of which this picture contains, thus making 633 Squadron more than a wet day crowd pleaser. In this day and age it's often forgotten how these type of film's relied on good aerial photography, deft model work, and a stirring score. ![]() 633 Squadron may not be a film for the War enthusiast purists? But the work done here to make this film a winner should never be understated. A WW2 squadron of Mosquito bombers are training for a perilous mission to bomb a cliff face in Norway with the aim to bring the cliff tumbling down on the German arms factory below it. ![]()
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