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By Topic By Person By Film. 633 Squadron. Donald Houston served in the RAF during the Second World War. Cliff Robertson, an accomplished pilot, wanted to buy one of the Mosquitoes after filming had finished, as he was so impressed with the type. He was not permitted to do this but he later bought a Spitfire Mk IX which he owned until the late ...
Recently viewed. 633 Squadron: Directed by Walter Grauman. With Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews. A RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.
The film also shows some cynicism creeping into the WWII film, with 633 Squadron ordered into a near-suicidal mission, even if it means the destruction of the entire squadron. Robertson's character is also pragmatic more than heroic, arguing that attacking the Germans is “a job, not the Holy Grail” (I did say the script was weak).
A WWII Royal Air Force squadron prepare for an important and dangerous mission...to demolish a Nazi-run munitions factory deep in the fjords of Norway--an installation which is a source of fuel for German rocket-launching. Based on the novel by Frederick E. Smith.
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 ...
633 Squadron is a 1964 British film, which depicts the exploits of a fictional Second World War British fighter-bomber squadron and stars Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris and Maria Perschy. The plot was based on a novel of the same name by Frederick E. Smith, published in 1956, which itself drew on several real Royal Air Force operations.
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.
