633 Squadron

1964 102 min ★ 6.1 Drama, War

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.

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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

Details

Director

Walter Grauman

Screenplay

Howard Koch

Tagline

"The greatest adventure since men fought on earth - or flew over it!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

The Mirisch Company

Reviews

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John Chard

December 24, 2018

★ 7/10

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. ...

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CinemaSerf

December 2, 2024

★ 6/10

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...