633 Squadron

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.

Genre : DramaWar

Runtime : 102 mins

Release Date : 1964-04-06

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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 Wa...

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 mountains...

Cast

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 Bissell)

John Church

(Flying Officer Evans)

Barbara Archer

(Rosie, barmaid at the Black Swan Inn)

Sean Kelly

(Lieutenant Nigel)

Julian Sherrier

(Flight Lieutenant Singh)

Geoffrey Frederick

(Flight Lieutenant Frank)

Johnny Briggs

(Lieutenant Jones)

Suzan Farmer

(WAAF Sergeant Mary Blake / Bissell)

Anne Ridler

(SS Interrogator)

Peter Kriss

(Lieutenant Maner (uncredited))

Cavan Malone

(Ericson, Norwegian Resistance (uncredited))

Richard Shaw

(Johanson, Norwegian Resistance (uncredited))