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633 SQUADRON [Region B]

Cliff Robertson (Actor), George Chakiris (Actor), Walter Grauman (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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Excitement, adventure, derring-do and courage in the war-torn skies over northern Europe are "the right stuff" for this pulse-pounding World War II air drama. Two Academy Award winners headline the solid cast: Cliff Robertson (Best Actor, Charly, 1968) and George Chakiris (Best Supporting Actor, West Side Story, 1961). Robertson, an avid flyer in real life, plays a combat-weary pilot whose R.A.F. squadron is ordered on an apparent suicide mission to destroy a Nazi rocket fuel plant tucked deep into a Norwegain fjord. Chakiris portays a resistance fighter whose fate numbers among the many ironies in the expertly written screenplay.

To make the film, which is based on a true story, a squadron of legendary Mosquito fighter bombers was resurrected from near extinction. Dazzling flying sequences, bone-shaking sound and superb special effects help make this one of the most realistic combat films ever to reach the screen.


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  • In Good Company Remembering 633 Squadron (Kim Newman)
  • Flying High The Mirisch Strategy (Paul Kerr)
  • Mission Impossible Analysing 633 Squadron (Russ Hunter)

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.2 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm; 80 g
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Walter Grauman
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL, Blu-ray
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 30 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 20 May 2019
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Final Cut Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NB9BK9C
  • Country of origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer reviews:
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  • Paul blower
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great product
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2024
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    Great film
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  • Grahame Lowther
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good quality
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2024
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    I love the old WW2 Films & its a true story.
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  • J. P. M. Smit
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting movie
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2024
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    Exciting movie! I'm on the edge on my site!
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  • Darth Maciek
    4.0 out of 5 stars An ambitious war film damaged by weakness of scenario, but with a great music, lots of Mosquitos and IMPRESSIVE last 15 minutes!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2013
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    This is a honest war film and I am glad that I bought and watched it - but sadly, most of this film is greatly inferior to the still impressive final combat. Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS.

    This film describes the exploits during World War II of a fictional RAF squadron, flying De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bombers, planes famous for their great speed, powerful armament and last but not least - their beauty. In fact the Mosquito is as much the hero of this film as any of the characters.

    7781 Mosquitos were built during WWII in UK, Canada and Australia. Used operationally since spring 1942 as fast reconnaissance planes, night fighters, precision attack light bombers, ground attack fighter-bombers and target marking "Pathfinders" Mosquitos served allies well and were greatly respected and feared by Germans. III Reich tried quickly to copy this excellent plane, but it turned out it was not so easy to do and as the result the German equivalent Focke-Wulf Ta-154 Moskito, which became operational in 1944, was a disappointment - from the 50 build, most were affected to training, with only a handful being used as night fighters, with negligible results.

    This film is to a certain extent inspired by some real events. Because of their speed, agility, long range and capacity to carry a quite serious bomb load (some could carry a 1800 kg "Cookie" bomb!), the Mosquitos were particularly suitable for precision bombing of small, but important targets, which were frequently hard to reach and defended by strong Flak. They proved it during one of their first bombing operations, on 25 September 1942, when four Mosquitos from RAF 105 Squadron took off from Scotland and attacked Gestapo HQ in Oslo. Even if this attack was only a partial success and caused serious collateral damage, more raids of this kind were launched later against targets in Netherlands, France and Denmark.

    Another inspiration for this film was the successful attack led by RAF in 1944 against German super-battleship "Tirpitz", anchored at the bottom of one of Norwegian fjords and protected by powerful anti-aircraft defence - even if in this case the real raid was made by Avro Lancaster heavy bombers.

    In this film we can see the Mosquitos a lot and it is a good thing. Sadly, the scenario is not half as good as this famous plane was - which is frankly amazing, considering that it was co-written by James Clavell in person! I found large fragments of this film rather boring and many dialogs were really not that great.

    As for actors, even if Cliff Robertson did finally a rather honest job, George Chakiris didn't - and anyway his character was really lame (and also who had the genius idea to ask a Greek to play a Norwegian?). Maria Perschy, although undeniably cute, didn't shine a lot in this film either. And the whole romantic angle in this film seemed really artificial. On another hand secondary characters were much better played - Harry Andrews and Angus Lennie did particularly well and I also certainly liked Julian Sherrier as Flight Lieutenant Singh (pity that this character was not shown more).

    That being said, this film still has a lot to offer. The music is beautiful and impressive. Mosquitos are shown a lot. The final 15 minutes are EXCELLENT and still impress a lot, even today. And last but not least, there is the fact that the final fight in this film inspired George Lucas to copy it almost scene by scene for the attack of rebel fighters against Death Star in Star Wars! And for a pathological Star Wars fan like me (yes, I am a nerdy fanboy and I am PROUD of it), that means a LOT!

    So bottom line, I rate this film four stars and I recommend it to all those who didn't see it yet. And I will keep my copy preciously for a future re-viewing. Enjoy!
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  • Peter M
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great boys-own film with a super theme.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2023
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    Perhaps the most thrilling aircraft of WW2, the Mosquito, is one of the stars of this film. As good as anything else (perhaps better) in the film is the theme by Ron Goodwin. A good yarn, well told.
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  • Maverick 65
    5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry in motion.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2018
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    The acting is brilliant with a host of well known stars headed by Harry Andrews and Cliff Robertson who wanted to do the flying in the film. But the stars of the film are the mosquitoes, their beautiful lines, Merlin engines and their ability to perform like ballerinas in the sky above war torn Norway steal the show. I remember the film first coming out and it was one of the reasons I learnt to fly. Although the film was made in Scotland and the Germans are shown for what they are, it is still British film making at its best and it still stands the test of time amongst the top war film greats. You should watch this as a quiet night in with a glass of wine and crisp or with the kid to teach them about history. Keep an eye out for Crocodile Dundee, the only problem is they never made a sequel.
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  • Kh
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2024
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    Good film
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  • Kenny Grice
    3.0 out of 5 stars Terrible HD transfer. This classic deserves better than this rather shoddy effort.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2019
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    I think everyone here must have seen this film, it was a bit like 'The Great Escape' and on every Bank Holiday. It tells the story of a fictitious RAF squadron of Mosquito fighter-bombers that go on a mission to Norway in 1944 to destroy a German factory that is producing fuel for the V2 rockets. The film was based on the novel '633 Squadron' written by a former RAF officer Frederick E Smith.

    The film is clearly ripping of 'The Dambusters' film of a decade or so earlier by covering a similar sort of raid. This movie is rather more Boy's Own stuff. As this film was American financed they insisted on two American leads in Cliff Robertson and George Chakiris. Robertson plays a US Squadron Leader who is a member of one of three Eagle Squadrons* so that does a good job of explaining why he is in the movie but Chakiris is playing a member of the Norwegian Resistance but he is OK. The rest of the cast is made up of British stalwarts. Angus (Shughie McFee) Lennie must have come straight from filming 'The Great Escape' to make this film. He is joined by Harry Andrews, Donald Houston, Suzan Farmer, Michael Goodliffe and Johnny (Mike Baldwin) Briggs. You have to wonder in how many films Harry Andrews played an officer in war films!

    The flying sequences are really well filmed indeed with real Mosquitoes used. They were leased from a Flying School in Gloucestershire. A lot of the aircraft used in the film are still in existence today. Scotland was used to double for Norway and for the training flights. There is some fairly good model work used for aircraft crashing or exploding mid-air. It was 1963 and the effects team do an OK job.

    The film is probably best remembered for its stirring theme music by Ron Goodwin. It must crop up on every Best of compilation of Music from War Films. It really is a belter of a tune.

    Sadly the pq of this film is not good and it is the same source as the 2004 DVD. As it was issued by a budget company called Final Cut it has had zero restoration. So every blemish, fleck, bit of dirt that was present on the DVD is here again in HD. It has had no colour restoration so some scenes look dull and lifeless. Don't get me wrong it is an improvement on the DVD but not dramatically.

    The DVD contains a cinema trailer and subtitles. Both of these are missing from the BD.

    Extras: 3 featurettes. Two of which are really poor. They have so called war film experts like Kim Newman spouting mostly tripe. Newman should stick to horror films in which he is an expert. He says he doesn't know why an American is serving in the RAF and perhaps he is meant to be Canadian. Cliff Robertson clearly states in the film that he is member of an Eagle Squadron! The Eagle Squadrons who were all volunteer US pilots who joined the RAF before the USA entered the war. The third featurette is however very good indeed as it tells you about The Mirisch Company who produced the film. The fellow, Paul Kerr, that talks about the company really knows what he is talking about and is writing a book about the company.

    I am glad I only paid £7.99 for this BD because, as David Dickinson would say, its all its money.

    For the BD 3/10. For the film 9/10.
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  • LJ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for WWII movie buffs!
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 December 2024
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    I watched these two movies back-to-back and what amazed me is how the director used some of the same film footage between both movies, to save money on the movie budgets no doubt!

    A lot of campy miniatures used in action scenes, and some of the acting was a little painful to watch, but overall these are two great old WWII British war movies that any movie buff would want in their collection. Yes, some people still collect DVD's!
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  • Brian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie.
    Reviewed in Canada on 23 February 2022
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    A very watchable movie.
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  • Schimmelmang
    5.0 out of 5 stars Kriegsfilm
    Reviewed in Germany on 15 July 2024
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    Toller Kriegsfilm. Blitzartige Lieferung. Angenehmer Preis. Vielen Dank.
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  • Caroline
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent film retraçant le courage des pilotes .
    Reviewed in France on 13 August 2020
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    Recherches historiques sur la Bataille d' Angleterre
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  • Jokeman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Flying
    Reviewed in the United States on 1 April 2024
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    I remember going to see this film when it first came out (1964). One of the best flying film ever made. I’d put it right up there with the Battle of Britain (1969) where they got great aerial footage considering this YEARS before CGI came along.
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