Information
| Year: | 1953 |
| Rating: | 6.1(175) |
| Listed in: | Drama, War |
| Directed by: | Philip Leacock |
| Actors: | Dirk Bogarde Ian Hunter Bryan Forbes Walter Fitzgerald Bill Kerr Dinah Sheridan |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Philip Leacock | |
| Actors | |
| Dirk Bogarde | as Wing-Commander Tim Mason |
| Ian Hunter | as Group Captain Logan |
| Bryan Forbes | as Pilot Officer Peter Greeno (The Brat) |
| Walter Fitzgerald | as Dr. Mulvaney, Group Medical Officer |
| Bill Kerr | as Flight Lieutenant Bill Brown |
| William Sylvester | as Major Mac Baker, U.S. Observer |
| Charles Victor | as Dobbie - Innkeeper |
| Richard Wattis | as Pascal - Signals Officer |
| Carl Jaffe | as German General |
| Sam Kydd | as Ackroyd - the Brat's Mechanic |
| Terence Longdon | as Dr. Buchanan |
| Michael Ripper | as Bomb Aimer (Brown's Ship) |
| Campbell Singer | as Flight Sergeant (Chief of Ground Crews) |
| Harold Siddons | as Flight Lieutenant Saunders |
| Anthony Shaw | as Smithy - Mason's Aide |
| Anthony Forwood | as Sandy - Navigation Officer |
| Ronald Adam | as Instructor |
| Arnold Bell | as Padre |
| John Colicos | as Pip |
| Eric Corrie | as Rear Gunner |
| Carl Duering | as German Duty Officer |
| Edward Evans | as A.C. Bridges |
| John Fabian | as Dizzy |
| Wolf Frees | as German Luftwaffe Officer |
| Alan Gifford | as US General |
| Maurice Kaufmann | as Raf Officer |
| Lloyd Lamble | as Weather Man |
| John Martin | as Sergeant - Control Caravan |
| Allan McClelland | as Wireless Operator Flight Sgt. |
| Desmond Roberts | as Admiral Parker |
| William Russell | as RAF Officer |
| Don Sharp | as Mid Upper Gunner |
| Nigel Stock | as Co-Pilot |
| Stephen Vercoe | as Sgt Pilot Finch |
| Tom Walls Jr. | as Gunnery Leader |
| Donovan Winter | as Navigator |
| Actresses | |
| Dinah Sheridan | as Eve Canyon |
| Anne Leon | as Mrs. Pamela Greeno |
| Gillian Maude | as WAAF Officer |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Plot: | Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon. |
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Goofs
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Fact errors: In the scene depicting the take off starring Bill Kerr as the Australian pilot, he starts the aircraft up with the phrase "contact port outer". This is incorrect - the Lancaster would have started with the port inner engine as this drove the hydraulics which controlled the turrets etc. CHAR: When Wing Commander Mason ('Dirk Bogarde' (qv)) removes Pilot Officer Greeno's name from the crew list on the blackboard, he tells the Adjutant that "One one eight squadron is standing down". In fact the squadron's number in the film is one eight eight. DATE: During the end credits, as the car approaches Buckingham Palace, there are some cars that are obviously from the early 1950s, not 1943 when the movie is set. Continuity: When Tim arrived by himself at the pub he lights a cigarette, then removes some tobacco from his tongue with his fingers. He rubs his fingers together and moves the cigarette pack. As we cut to the next shot he rubs his fingers together again and moves the pack again. |
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