The Dam Busters (behind the scenes)

[Jimbuna]

Came across this on the diecast aviation forum:

http://usa.onlinenigeria.com/latest-additions/86744-behind-the-scenes-of-the-dam-busters-how-crews-created-scale-models-of-targets-and-flew-real-lancasters-to-make-classic-war-film.html

[Oberon]

Very nice, I thought Redgrave made an excellent Barnes Wallis, and the film itself was choreographed well.

An interesting tidbit for those who might not have heard it before, from wikipedia:

The animal used to portray ****** was an RAF dog, on loan to the production. Richard Todd was the animal wrangler, and later recalled that the dog was an exemplary actor who hardly ever required a re-take. On two occasions, however, the dog caused difficulty. On the first occasion, the dog could not be persuaded to wait when filming the scene when ****** answers a knock on the door in Gibson's bedroom. The second occasion was when filming on location at RAF Scampton, where ****** and Gibson were to stroll through a group of RAF men waiting outside of a building for a briefing. The dog could not be persuaded to move off one spot, or even dragged past it on a leash. It later transpired that the spot was the site where the real ****** had been buried, some 8 years before, whose gravestone had been temporarily removed for filming. In the end, the scene was filmed without the dog.

[eddie]

Thanks for the HU about this article!:up:

[Jimbuna]

An interesting tidbit for those who might not have heard it before, from wikipedia:

Yes...I should have added that in hindsight...cheers :up:

[soopaman2]

This may come across as ignorant or off topic maybe, I saw a documentary on Netflix about Hitlers dambusters. Not hitler himself, but the guys who broke his dam and the design of the bouncing bomb.

Kudos to the brits for designing that bouncing bomb.

Hah hah, allies rule, axis drools!:O:
although German uniforms were quite dapper.