Dambusters

Fantastic film. Live not far from RAF Scampton. I was just reading how in the American version they redubbed it so the dog was referred to as Trigger.... which put me in mind of horses :D
 
Just watched it again... switched on almost at the beginning and couldn't stop watching it until the end. Despite the subject matter and the stunning aerial photography, the film possesses a kind of innate calmness & stillness in some of the ground/spoken scenes.

Have you by any chance been able to view the dog's gravestone at RAF Scampton?
 
thankfully that name for a pet eventually died out with time, I am not aware of any other pet names that have caused offence.
 
Every time I start watching this I'm glued to the TV till it enRAB. It's funny how we mis-remember bits of old films though. I thought it was someone else's dog that got run over, mum thought it was a black and white dog and that Gibson witnessed the accident.

Apparently misremembering past events is more common than we realise, mainly because we all assume that our recollections are correct.
 
Channel 4 always show the edited version, I know because I got involved in a rather long email exchange with on of the management boRAB over there when I complained about it. The idiots just couldn't see how stupid they were being by censoring that particular movie yet showing 'Boyz in the Hood' the very next night.
 
The Dambusters is currently being re-made (don't ask me why) in New Zealand. It will be interesting to see what they do about the dog's name.I have seen it broadcast several times on the BBC and they always left the name in but clearly times have changed. The BBC docco with Martin Shaw earlier in the evening was also fascinating and he achieved his boyhood ambition of actually flying in a Lancaster (the Battle of Britain flight one).For those interested Dambusters Declassified is repeated tonight on BBC2 at 2320 - highly recommended if you enjoyed the film.
 
Chucking those light aircraft about and trying to line them up looked extremely hairy. Gawd alone knows how they managed it at night, in Lancasters.
Most of our modern 19-24 year olRAB seem incapable of holding a conversation, let alone holding a Lanc at 50ft under fire.
 
Did anyone see Dambusters Declassified last night?
I did and found it fascinating and hugely enjoyable.One of the very best Dambuster programs (not the film) that I,ve seen.
RegarRAB
 
Glad they didn't actually fly low over the dam at the end. I was fearing it would look really disrespectful to those who died but they did the right thing and just flew around it from a distance.
 
The main filming was done at RAF Hemswell, near Scampton, where the RAF had mothballed some of their Lancs after the war.Richard Todd, of course, took part in the D Day landings where he was a para officer.
 
Yeah it was good and the low flying sequences somehow communicated over the reality of what they went through on that mission in the war.

Martin Shaw seemed more like a normal bloke in awe of the Dambusters and not an old luvvie.
 
Watched the movie and loved it but Dambusters Declassified earlier in the evening...what a waste of time. Apart from the interviews there was absolutely noting new in the programme. In fact there were hardly any facts at all new or otherwise. Everything had been said a 100 times before. 20 minutes into the programme and the raid had been completed which meant you had 40 minutes of
 
Can't find much news of the Dambusters remake, it seems to have been in production since 2008 with a screenplay by Stephen Fry. There's a clip of a scene on Youtube where Guy Gibson seems to be speaking with an Australian accent ! The film was originally due for release in 2010 but that is clearly unlikely. It's being directed by Peter Jackson.Personally I can't see the need for a remake of a classic British war film.
 
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