Mosquito Squadron (1970)

Mosquitoes revisited

Mosquito Squadron is a take-off on the 633 Squadron film. After viewing the movie, many sequences were taken from 633. The same landing pattern segment was used and the same crash landing and firefighting sequence. The saving grace was a better storyline and better acting. However, Sixties special effects were still inadequate. George Lucas has spoiled us or at least me. Again, my motivation in purchasing this DVD was to see the flying abilities of the De Havilland Mosquito in low altitude attack mode. This aircraft was famous for it. August 7, 2008

Patched together mess

This is a scrapbook movie - a little taken from "Operation Crossbow", and parts of the rest from a better film about Mosquito bombers called "633 Squadron" and David McCallum's "Beatle" haircut is absurd. June 11, 2008

Okay World War 2 air drama

The most suprising thing about this movie is its date -1968 .It bears all the marks of a movie made in the UK about a decade or so earlier when the war movie was a staple ingredient of the British film industry

The eponymous squadron of the RAF is tasked with carrying out a raid on a German occupied chateau in France where the Nazis are developing a new weapon ,the remote control bomb the V3 .They are utilising new and untested technology -a new type of bomb-and they are also having to cope with a moral dilemma as the Germans are holding several hundred allied troops as POW's in the cahteau and the raid will almost certainly kill those prisoners

The direction by Boris Sagal is fine and the raid itself well executed within obvious budgetary restrictions .Acting is solid all round especially from David McCallum as the leader of the raid -who must also find tome to console the wife of his best friend who is missing in action-and from the always watchable Charles Gray

The movie is old fashioned and some way short of top drawer movies in the genre ,such as The Dam Busters but its an okay time passer November 20, 2007

Not as good as I remember

Hey, I was six years old and this was the best movie I had ever seen on the big screen. So at 43 my tastes have changed a bit and the movie, although still cool, was not as spectacular as I remember. I know I know, you can never go home again can you.... April 6, 2007

A poor rehash

I've seen these scenes in so many different movies that I got bored and
turned it off. It was just a poor copy of other good movies. (Like 633 squadron). January 9, 2007

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