The Battle of Britain

I saw this years ago on ITV on a Saturday... I was surprised to see John Savident in a guest role- and Iain McShane. McShane is a bit working class here As compared to Eddie Fox, and Trevor Howard Oh the German Peace feelers in Switzerland are depicted here- We see France fall, and then those few desperate days The beginning of the Blitz. The incorporation of the Free Poles, and Free Czech. We see Easgle day, Hitler and Goering appear on the screen Again- like in Von Ryan's Express there is a lot of German language here. Dowding is played as I belive he was a somewhat dour professional- worrying about his young men. Matter of factually telling the press that if the Germans are not in London by Sunday than he has won Then there is the wealth destroyed- human and physical. The RAF base which is destroyed. The aircraft- a glasshouse in an suburban garden. The young men who have had less then a days training in a Spitfire And they are young men. There is some for the time- strong language. There is a mural of a naked woman on a barracks wall. A young flier being scolded for doing a victory roll everytime he returns to base A german officer being told to keep away from the wine cellar Those fragile planes and the fragile bodies- We see one RAF officer who had been horribly burned and returned to work- dead WRAFS covered up in a blanket. On the other side the German's officers dinner table with only a handful of people left Christopher Plummer's marriage suffers during the war- a subplot I did not find particularly interesting This film a great spectacle- Probably the last time I think Spitfires flew en masse. I think it's worthy rather than wonderful