Esquadrão Mosquito

Esquadrão Mosquito (1969)

Mosquito Squadron

Inglaterra, Segunda Guerra Mundial. Quint Munroe, oficial da RAF e novo líder de esquadrão, é incumbido de destruir uma base secreta nazi em França, enquanto tenta ultrapassar o desaparecimento de um irmão de armas.

Data de estreia
1969-08-22
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (35)
Duração
1 h 31 min
Géneros
Drama, Romance, Guerra
Realizador
Boris Sagal

Elenco

Curiosidades

Mosquito Squadron is a 1969 British war film made by Oakmont Productions, directed by Boris Sagal and starring David McCallum. The raid echoes Operation Jericho, a combined RAF–Maquis raid which freed French prisoners from Amiens prison in which the Mosquitos took part.

Production

Although not a sequel, the film is similar to the 1964 film 633 Squadron and was influenced by it, even using some of its footage. The pre-title sequence (including the aforementioned opening music by Frank Cordell) was also taken from the WWII film Operation Crossbow.

The Highball weapon featured was an actual development of Barnes Wallis's "dam-busting" Upkeep bomb, and the footage of Mosquitoes dropping Highballs on land is genuine WWII archive footage, although in the event Highball was never used in combat.

The car driven by David McCallum is a 1935 Godsal V8 Corsica.

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