Director: Jack Gold
2 The film is based on a play by R.C.Sherrif - Journeys End - with the action moved from the trenches to the air war.
3 There are some good replica British and German WW1 aircraft. But some of the other aircraft are disguised De Havilland Tiger Moths, too modern for WW1.
| 3.01 Refutes 3 Cliché Alert! The British S.E.5a's are not Tiger Moths, they are disguised Belgian Stampe SV4's. The Stampe resembles the Tiger Moth a great deal, but has for example rounded wingtips. Fenris |
| 3.02 Four Stampe SV4's were modified to resemble S.E.5a's. Three of them could fly, and the fourth was used as "set dressing", and was also set afire in a scene. Fenris |
818 The flying scenes in were filmed in and around the Wycombe Air Park at Booker near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. Dave Bird
1310 Part of the movie shows Peter Firth piloting an Avro 504 (a real plane on the ground and in close ups, a model when shown flying), while Christopher Plummer photographs the enemy lines. They are attacked by a German fighter (actually a Finnish Valmet Viima built in the 30's), and when we get the German pilots point of view, the Avro has transformed itself into a French Caudron Luciole (also from the 30's). This is because those scenes are out-takes from The Blue Max. Fenris
1311 The German planes consisted of a Finnish Valmet Viima and a Fokker E I replica., plus some "modern" planes including a Tiger Moth and a Bücker Jungmann, shown mostly in the background in formation scenes Fenris
1312 Several scenes, like part of the attack on the German balloon, and some dog-fighting scenes, were outtakes from The Blue Max. Fenris
1313 In the real war, the Fokker E I (the red German monoplane) and the S.E.5a's the British flew, never met in fights. The Fokker was no longer in use as a first-line fighter, when the S.E.'s entered service. Fenris
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