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Mosquito Squadron

  • 19691969
  • GG
  • 1h 30m
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5.7/10
1.5K
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Mosquito Squadron (1969)
In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
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In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
1.5K
YOUR RATING
    • Boris Sagal
    • Donald S. Sanford
    • Joyce Perry
  • Stars
    • David McCallum
    • Suzanne Neve
    • Charles Gray
    • Boris Sagal
    • Donald S. Sanford
    • Joyce Perry
  • Stars
    • David McCallum
    • Suzanne Neve
    • Charles Gray
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    • 36User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    RAF Mosquito pilots preparing for a mission, including Pilot Officer Jamie Jameson (Christopher Toyne, kneeling)
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    David McCallum in Mosquito Squadron (1969)
    Charles Gray in Mosquito Squadron (1969)
    David McCallum and Suzanne Neve in Mosquito Squadron (1969)
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    David McCallum
    David McCallum
    • Quint Munroe
    Suzanne Neve
    Suzanne Neve
    • Beth Scott
    Charles Gray
    Charles Gray
    • Air Commodore Hufford
    David Buck
    David Buck
    • Sqn. Ldr. David 'Scotty' Scott
    David Dundas
    • Flt. Lieut. Douglas Shelton
    Dinsdale Landen
    Dinsdale Landen
    • Wing Commander Clyde Penrose
    Nicky Henson
    Nicky Henson
    • Flt. Sgt. Wiley Bunce
    Bryan Marshall
    Bryan Marshall
    • Sqn. Ldr. Neale
    Michael Anthony
    Michael Anthony
    • Father Bellague
    Peggy Thorpe-Bates
    • Mrs. Scott
    Peter Copley
    Peter Copley
    • Mr. Scott
    Vladek Sheybal
    Vladek Sheybal
    • Lieutenant Schack
    Michael McGovern
    • Flt. Lieutenant Bannister
    Bernard Barnsley
    • P.O.W.
    • (uncredited)
    Roy Beck
    • Resistance fighter
    • (uncredited)
    Derek Benfield
    Derek Benfield
    • Airman Valet
    • (uncredited)
    Susan Brodrick
    • Susan, Douglas' Fiancé
    • (uncredited)
    Harold Coyne
    • P.O.W
    • (uncredited)
      • Boris Sagal
      • Donald S. Sanford
      • Joyce Perry
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    • Trivia
      The whole pre-credits sequence in its entirety was taken from the studio's previous picture, Operation Crossbow (1965). This movie would also utilize footage from the studio's earlier 633 Squadron (1964), most noticably the shot of Munroe rolling on the ground to extinguish the flames on the back of his flying jacket, after rerturning from the recon mission.
    • Goofs
      Before the titles, the cooling tower of a nuclear reactor is visible on the left-hand of the screen.
    • Quotes

      Hufford: Ah, what do you say, Munroe, hmm? What are the odds?

      Munroe: About the same as spitting in an Air Commodore's eye from an express train, sir.

    • Connections
      Edited from 633 Squadron (1964)

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    6/10
    MOSQUITO SQUADRON (Boris Sagal, 1969) **1/2
    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!). Besides, the narrative tends too often towards romantic/sentimental complications: the relationship between the two leads being obstructed, for one thing, by the hero having been the best friend of the woman’s husband and, later, by the knowledge he shares with her maimed brother that the man had survived an air crash but is being kept prisoner in a château marked for obliteration during an Allied air raid led by the hero himself!

    The credentials are strictly below-par (the score, typically an asset in this type of flick, attempts to be rousing but succeeds only in being bland) and the casting a mix of TV actors (THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.’s David McCallum – who delivers a brooding performance – and Suzanne Neve from U.F.O.) and colorful character performers (Charles Gray as the pompous yet stern Air Commodore and Vladek Sheybal as the erudite but fishy Nazi officer in charge of the prison/plant fortress). Mind you, while being no great shakes (and probably instantly forgettable), the film proves mildly engaging – to say nothing of eminently watchable – along the way; when all is said and done, there are certainly far worse titles to spend 90 minutes of your life on…
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    • Release date
      • January 23, 1970 (United Kingdom)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • French
      • English
      • German
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    • Filming locations
      • RAF Bovingdon, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Oakmont Productions
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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