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Bookmark this pageBattle of Britain (1969)
Director: Guy Hamilton
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Dull, all-star treatment of a potentially stirring historical event, notable mainly for its lengthy, boring and far too numerous dogfight sequences, the tediousness of which is matched by the dialogue which the unfortunate actors are forced to deliver whenever they are grounded.Author: NF
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- scottlindsay said...
- Posted on Sep 14 2010 00:58 good film the best war film
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- HP said...
- Posted on Jul 09 2010 19:04 Wow, you really shot this one down. Mostly I agree- the characters were given very dull rolls, nothing developed and nothing followed through. There was no human side to this epic recreation of history. Where were the air aces such as Johnie Johnson and Douglas Bader? On the plus sides, the dog fights give a flavour of what it must have been like to have blasted a Meshersmit from the skies.
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Cast & crew
Director: Guy Hamilton
Producer: Harry Saltzman, S Benjamin Fisz
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Ian McShane, Kenneth More, Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 131 mins
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