Kampfgeschwader 633 (1964)

Kampfgeschwader 633: Directed by Walter Grauman. With Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews. An RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.

“The Men of the 633 Squadron of the Royal Air Force have one nasty mission to perform. The Nazis have built a factory deep within a cliff with an overhang on a Norwegian fjord that is making a special fuel for rockets theyu0026#39;re developing. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe RAF encountered a similar problem in The Guns of Navarone where an overhang protected two large pieces of artillery that was wreaking havoc on allied shipping. They gave up bombing there, but the Norwegian resistance brought in a geological consultant who says if they come in low and hit a certain spot with a fissure the whole thing will collapse and bury the factory under tons of rock.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe RAF mission, come in low and drop bombs enough to crack that fissure. Itu0026#39;s a nasty mission for Cliff Robertson and his men even with aid from a ground attack planned by George Chakiris with the Norwegian resistance. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhatu0026#39;s best about 633 Squadron are the special effects where they used vintage Mosquito fighter planes from World War II. Itu0026#39;s really done quite well and is exciting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs usual an American actor is brought in via the RAF Eagle Squadron for foreign pilots who enlisted before Pearl Harbor. In this case itu0026#39;s Cliff Robertson although heu0026#39;s a fine actor, isnu0026#39;t exactly box office. Maybe the producers thought he would be as he was just coming off playing John F. Kennedy in PT 109.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIu0026#39;m also not quite sure why the Nazis would locate a fuel for rockets that were to be used in defending the western Europe beach from the invasion in Norway. Maybe they were listening on Winston Churchill who was constantly advocating a Norwegian invasion though American military and his own military told him that wasnu0026#39;t feasible. If it was for a cross channel invasion defense, that would have presented a transportation logistics problem for the Germans.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn any event itu0026#39;s nice war film with great special effects.”