The greatest adventure since men fought on earth - or flew over it!
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.
- 6.1
- 1964
- Released
- 1h 42m
Cliff Robertson
Wing Commander Roy Grant
George Chakiris
Lieutenant Erik Bergman
Maria Perschy
Hilde Bergman
Harry Andrews
Air Vice-Marshal Davis
Donald Houston
Group Captain Don Barrett
Michael Goodliffe
Squadron Leader Frank Adams
John Meillon
Flight Lieutenant Gillibrand
John Bonney
Flight Lieutenant Scott
Angus Lennie
Flying Officer Hoppy Hopkinson
Scot Finch
Flying Officer BissellJohn Church
Flying Officer EvansBarbara Archer
Rosie, barmaid at the Black Swan InnSean Kelly
Lieutenant NigelJulian Sherrier
Flight Lieutenant SinghGeoffrey Frederick
Flight Lieutenant Frank
Johnny Briggs
Lieutenant Jones
Suzan Farmer
WAAF Sergeant Mary Blake / BissellAnne Ridler
SS InterrogatorPeter Kriss
Lieutenant Maner (uncredited)Cavan Malone
Ericson, Norwegian Resistance (uncredited)Richard Shaw
Johanson, Norwegian Resistance (uncredited)
Released
en
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- #air raid
- #norwegian resistance
Reviews
We probably ought to bear in mind that this film was designed for success at the American box office, so there is quite a lot of theatrical licence taken with this telling of the story of an RAF squadron tasked with the destruction of a Nazi rocket fuel factory built deep into a Norwegian mountainside. George Chakiris (not too long after his success in "West Side Story") and Cliff Robertson take t
Fall in for the blood pumping joy of De Havilland's Mosquitoes. 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. 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.