374 Dam Busters, The (1954)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
374 Dam Busters, The (1954)
- The RAF supplied most of the aircraft, at a cost of 130 pounds per hour.
This expense consumed 10% of the film's budget.
- An cut of the film was spiced up for the American market. Additional scenes
of a plane crashing were later removed after it was spotted that Warners had
used WW2 footage of a Flying Fortress (the RAF used Lancasters).
- The bombs shown in the movie were the wrong shape becuase the actual shape
(a stubby cylinder) was still secret at the time.
- The film premiered 12 years to the day from the original raid. The raid was
one of the most effective operations of WW2 (the West German government were
still mopping up after the original raid when the film was in production).
- Gibson's dog ``Nigger'' was dubbed into ``Trigger'' for the US market. See
also Goofs entry.
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