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1964 Certificate PG
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Cliff Robertson portrays a combat-weary pilot whose R.A.F. squadron is ordered to destroy a Nazi rocket fuel plant tucked deep into a Norwegian fjord. Based on a true story. Read more

Starring George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Cliff Robertson, Harry Andrews
Director Walter Grauman
Genres Action/Adventure, Drama

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633 Squadron

Cliff Robertson portrays a combat-weary pilot whose R.A.F. squadron is ordered to destroy a Nazi rocket fuel plant tucked deep into a Norwegian fjord. Based on a true story.

Starring George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Cliff Robertson, Harry Andrews, Michael Goodliffe, Donald Houston
Director Walter Grauman
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Action/Adventure, Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 05 May 2003
Production year: 1964
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (2) of 633 Squadron

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    A film that inevitably suffers in comparison with that other tribute to the Royal Air Force, The Dam Busters. The mission is less audacious, the casting is less precise (Cliff Robertson as an American in the RAF and George Chakiris as a Norwegian Resistance fighter) and the theme tune is far harder to sing along to. The flying sequences are, undeniably, more thrilling (particularly the Scottish Highlands training exercises), but they cannot compensate for the dullness of the Norwegian-set scenes, which smack of Hollywood's wartime vision of occupied Europe in which the Nazis resemble the Keystone Kops and romance matters more than heroism.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Standard war heroics with enough noise and disorder to keep most audiences hypnotized.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Great Film

    The theme music in this film is one of the best tracks in a war film, I think this one was the better of the two films based on the Mosquito plane the other being Mosquito squadron.

    But if you select scene 13 and fast forward it to the point where the bombs are being brought in, look at the top of the screen you will see a white car drive past and I sure it was not a 1940?s one.

      • A customer from Liverpool England
      • Posted 28 May 2004 15:00

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Glorious film

    This is one of my favorite war films and when I was a young girl, I fell in love with the dark haired, handsome guy being tortured by the Germans and cried when he was blown up by his friends in the RAF. I learned to play the music, which is memorable and haunting and award it 10 out of 10 for action.

      • A customer from England
      • Posted 02 Apr 2007 19:59

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