Alarmstart für Geschwader Braddock

Alarmstart für Geschwader Braddock (1969)

The Thousand Plane Raid

US-Colonel Braddock will den Krieg beenden. Er schlägt vor, die deutschen Fokker-Wulf-Werke in Merseburg zu bombadieren. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit macht er aus Bruchpiloten souveräne Flieger. Sein Plan sieht vor, dass 1000 Bomber in drei Wellen das Flugzeugwerk zerstören.

Erscheinungsdatum
1969-07-15
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (8)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 33 Min.
Genres
Abenteuer, Kriegsfilm
Regie
Boris Sagal

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

The Thousand Plane Raid is a 1969 DeLuxe Color film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Christopher George and Laraine Stephens. Although claimed to be derived from Ralph Barker's The Thousand Plane Raid, the storyline of the film inaccurately portrays the first raid as an 8th Air Force mission while the actual attack was undertaken by 1,047 Royal Air Force bombers against the city of Cologne, Germany in May 1942.

Production

The film was based on Ralph Baker's book of the same name which was published in 1966.

The film was made for the Mirisch Corporation. Shooting started January 16, 1968. The Mirisch Corporation signed George to a five-picture contract.

The film was shot in a budget-conscious manner. The main sets were in Santa Maria, California, and principal photography took place in winter 1968. The local village and airport realistically portrayed a typical British wartime base. Period-style maintenance shops, an operations center and a wartime-style control tower were added to re-create the fictional Steeple Bassington base.

Aerial sequences included a mix of stock wartime footage, including the Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944), some of it colorized to match original footage. The air-boss was legendary Hollywood stunt pilot Frank Tallman, but the most spectacular scene was a low-flying B-17 scene flown by Don Lykins.

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