Guide wires are clearly visible on some of the miniatures of exploding aircraft.
As the crippled plane makes a suicide dive at the tunnel mouth and the tunnel explodes a split second before the plane impacts.
Before the titles, the cooling tower of a nuclear reactor is visible on the left-hand of the screen.
When Scotty's plane crashes in the countryside, you can see the shadow of the plane model on the background scenery just before it explodes.
When the Mosquitos are filmed landing after the first training flight you can see a modern air park in the background containing Cessna's and the like.
After crashing, the pilot jumps from his burning plane with the back of his jacket on fire.
The flames are extinguished but after a short dialog, the pilot is seen walking from the scene from behind with not even a scorch mark on his jacket.
The "German" trucks and half track vehicles are American vehicles with German markings added.
The German "Fighters" are in fact Messerschmitt Bf 108 four seat communication/Touring aircraft and are unarmed.
The crashed mosquito plane propellers are not bent after the plane is belly landed.
In actuality they would all be bent over at 90 degrees towards the wing.
When Squadron Leader Munroe is driving along in the open top car, his lady passenger's locks of hair are perfectly still and not blowing around as would normally be the case in a speeding open saloon car.
This scene is quite obviously shot inside the studio with a filmed background added.
Usually a "wind" machine is used for the desired effect.
Only very briefly when the couple are seen at a distance actually driving outside does the flowing hair appear normally.
After Scotty's plane has been shot down and crashed, Squadron Leader Munroe visits Scotty's parents.
At the beginning of the rear garden wide shot in which Squadron Leader Munroe commiserates with Mr.
Scott, over Scotty's apparent death, there are Television Aerials clearly visible on the chimneys of the building used for the Scott's House.
When leaving their aircraft after missions, the aircrews are seen to have blackened cheeks - just like the World War 1 fighter pilots who returned from aerial combats bearing the same marks.
However the airmen of the 1914-18 conflict received the facial smudges from cordite smoke that was blown backwards from the exposed breeches of machine guns mounted in front of the open cockpits of that era.
The Mosquito had a closed cockpit and its forward-firing weapons were mounted in the nose - the gun breeches were not exposed, they were situated below the plywood floor of the cockpit and expended cartridge cases went through ejection ports.
Mosquito pilots sometimes complained about feeling excessive vibration through their feet when firing long bursts with 20mm cannons, but never had to worry about streaked faces.
After being hit by gunfire during a photographic mission over France, a fire starts in the cockpit of the hero's Mosquito aircraft.
The fire is still visible (the flames are exactly the same height and in exactly the same place) when he reaches his airfield back in England.
The Mosquito was made of plywood and any fire represented a serious danger because the structure (bonded with glues and resins) burned with inconvenient eagerness.
A Mosquito pilot who allowed a cockpit fire to remain alight would have been swiftly cremated - add the oxygen delivery system to the scenario and the decorative tongue of flame in the above sequences becomes an even sillier screen-filler.
In the scene at the end of the movie when the German tank attacks the escaping British prisoners, it has a large swastika in between the drivers port and the hull machine gun.
German panzers did not have large swastikas on the front.
The Mosquito aircraft carrying Highball bombs in the film use an extendable air-scoop fitted to the rear of the bomb bay.
Real Highball aircraft used a pair of scoops fitted either side of the fuselage, under the wing roots.
There are only 4 Mosquitos attacking the V-1 launchers in the opening sequence, but 6 loads of bombs are shown being dropped.
During the recon mission, the section of the wing and engine nacelle between the canopy and the wing insignia disappears, showing the ground below.
When Munroe makes his approach to bomb the prison wall, the Germans look vertically up and run away, even though his Mosquitto is then shown to be still sufficiently far away and to be low enough to be close to the horizon.
The tank at the end is clearly an American made Sherman with a Swastika crudely painted onto the front, not a German Panzer.
Despite being raked with automatic fire at close range, the priest's white cassock shows no tears nor any blood-stains.
When the launch ramps are shown they are in the middle of green fields surrounded by hedges and deciduous trees.
When the German guns start firing they are in pine forests and when the ramps explode you can see a quarry cliff behind them.
A rather far-fetched tale about an RAF squadron out to destroy a (not very) secret Nazi V2 rocket site in Occupied France. David McCallum leads a distinctly B-list cast in this rather processional drama.
I must tell you up front that I have a prejudice towards this film, as I love airplane movies--particularly WWII air films. So, when I saw this on the queue for Netflix, I thought I had to see it--especially since I am familiar with the famed fighter-bomber, the Mosquito.
An economical retread of '633 Squadron' without American leads this time (David McCallum's stature on TV in 'The Man from U.N.
Mosquito Squadron gets a very bad press, and most of it is deserved, but to be fair, if you watch it when you chip off early from work on a mid day afternoon, it delivers on quite a few levels. It is not too long so you don't get bogged down too much and its got a reasonable plot (as long as you don't compare it with Operation Crossbow and 633 Squadron - which are not only similar plot wise, but were shamelessly looted for much of their footage by this film).
At a time when many a star-studded and big-budgeted WWII actioner emerged, this modest effort seemed definitely like second-tier material – offering customary but efficient thrills and decent spectacle, somewhat in the vein of 633 SQUADRON (1964)…with which it shares much of the plot and action footage! In this respect, the film also owes its German secret weapon to OPERATION CROSSBOW (1965) and its bouncing bombs to THE DAM BUSTERS (1955); no wonder, then, that the end result feels awfully contrived (particularly at the climax, when successive to a couple of failed attempts, it has a wounded pilot wilfully crash smack into the warehouse where the rockets are manufactured!
1944; the Nazis are sending V-2's ( flying bombs ) to London. These have an unnerving tendency to fall silent just before they hit, meaning that no-one in the capital can be sure exactly where they will next strike.
Squadron Leader Quint Munroe is struggling to come to terms with the probable death of his friend and comrade, Sq. Leader David Scott.
This is the sort of film which belongs in the same category as old-fashioned boys war comics like Commando etc. Sure, its weak on characterisation, clichéd in its plot, with wooden acting and stereotype Germans but you don't watch a B-movie for characterisation, intricate plotting, great dialogue and so on.
Sometimes when you're watching an obscure late night movie on cable that stars Treat Williams you may notice scenes from another much more famous film edited into the scenario . If I remember correctly CRITICAL MASS and a couple of other movies do this and I'd previously thought this was a recent concept .
