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A powerful, colourful and star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and understaffed, the British forces used determination and guile to valiantly hold off the superior forces of the German Luftwaffe in the early days of World War II. If England had lost, the Germans .. Read more

Starring Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Susannah York
Director Guy Hamilton
Genres Action/Adventure, Drama

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Battle Of Britain

A powerful, colourful and star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and understaffed, the British forces used determination and guile to valiantly hold off the superior forces of the German Luftwaffe in the early days of World War II. If England had lost, the Germans may very well have won the war. The incredible cast includes Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Curt Jurgens, and Laurence Olivier, in a no-expense-spared production featuring stunning airborne dog-fight sequences.

Starring Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Patrick Wymark, Curt Jurgens, Michael Redgrave, Nigel Patrick, Robert Flemyng, Edward Fox
Director Guy Hamilton
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 7 mins
Blu-ray: 2 hrs 7 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate PG.gif
Genres Action/Adventure, Drama
Language English
Released DVD: 24 May 2004
Blu-ray: 09 Nov 2009
Production year: 1969
Format DVD

Battle Of Britain (1969)

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    This worthy tribute to “the few” has spectacular air battles, a memorable re-creation of the Blitz and a terrific cast that includes Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer. It is interesting today to watch so many great names in the twilight of their careers: not just knights Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier (as the tight-lipped Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding), but also Trevor Howard (excellent as Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park), Robert Shaw, Harry Andrews, Kenneth More, Patrick Wymark, Nigel Patrick and Curt Jürgens. Most of Sir William Walton's original score was dumped and replaced by Ron Goodwin's, but a tantalising fragment remains in the air battles.

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

    Plodding attempt to cover an historic event from too many angles and with too many guest stars, all indistinguishable from each other when masked in the cockpit during the repetitive and interminable dogfight sequences. On the ground, things are even dull

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 12 out of 15 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    disappointment

    After viewing the bonus disc i was disappointed that the disc stopped working just as the story was starting to develop.

      • A customer from belfast
      • Posted 09 Dec 2005 12:37

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    How did Guy Hamilton allow such poor acting from superstars?

    The film is comprised of great camera work, excellent color, a great music score, the action is good but what about the lousy acting from stars that we know are capable of better than this, Olivier, Howard, Jurgens and Richardson are fine and even the supporting actors but Plummer, Caine, York, Shaw, McShane and Fox et.al. give patronizing hammy performances. The fault must lie with the direcor Guy Hamilton although the german actors gave very believable performances. Why a sector controller with hideous skin grafts from an actual fiery air battle? All very patronizing, he must have gone down in his blazing hurricane only a year previous, amazing how his skin grafts have taken so well in one short year! However there's nothing can match the scope of this film and you will never see actual WW2 airoplanes like these in a film ever again so I give it 5 stars even with it's lousy acting.

      • Tony from London, England
      • Posted 24 Sep 2006 01:13

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