Top billed cast

1. 

   Harry Andrews

   Senior Civil Servant

2. 

   Michael Caine

   Squadron Leader Canfield

3. 

   Trevor Howard

   Air Vice Marshal Keith Park

4. 

   Curd Jürgens

   Baron von Richter

5. 

   Ian McShane

   Sgt. Pilot Andy

6. 

   Kenneth More

   Group Capt. Baker

7. 

   Laurence Olivier

   Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

8. 

   Nigel Patrick

   Group Capt. Hope

9. 

   Christopher Plummer

   Squadron Leader Colin Harvey

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-04-13

It's 1940 and the ebullient Reichsmarschall (Hein Riess) arrives in his powder blue uniform to inspire his invincible Luftwaffe in their imminent reduction of the RAF to a pile of bombed out aerodromes and blazing aircraft. Across the channel, Sir Hugh Dowding (Sir Laurence Olivier) is trying to organise His Majesty's forces - outnumbered by something like four to one, to thwart that ambition. The next couple of hours demonstrate just how the British - helped by a disparate collection of dispossessed European allies from Poland, Czechoslovakia and France as well as many from Commonwealth natio...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$12,000,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• raf (royal air force)
• world war ii
• based on true story
• aerial combat
• british history
• airfield
• 1940s
• battle of britain
• spitfire pilots
• luftwaffe
• fighter pilots
• pilots
• aerial attack
• airplanes