I love this movie so much

Load of rubbish!!

best movie i've ever seen.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

This is a cheap but certainly not cheerful film.It borrows lots from other films like Operation Crossbow and 633 Squadron. So it was obviously made on a tight budget.Most of the actors look bored and there isn't a decent performance from any of them. David McCallum is poor. He shows no real emotion or depth in his performance. It almost looks like he felt he was forced to make the film and so couldn't be bothered. Maybe that's true as he certainly performs badly. He was much better in The Great Escape but that was a much better film than this. This is another film where the love part of it feels staged and not realistic.Special effects are average but the film just doesn't have enough going for it to raise it above mediocre.

Mosquito pilots must destroy a big house where the Germans are meant to be developing the v3 rocket ( wonder what that would have looked like ) and considering how effective the v1 and v2 rockets are the v3 must not reach production so the squadron use bouncing bombs to destroy the house. Sounds quite imaginative if not a tad bit stupid but it comes off as a big pile of junk with unconvincing dog fights and action with the exception of the last part of the film. There are Ed Wood style goofs like a planes shadow on the backdrop and planes wobbling in the air as they fly but it does have a good feel to it just try not to take it to seriously watch Dam Busters or 633 Squadron instead.

Having seen this in a theater in 1969 as a kid, it kept my complete attention and that's not an easy thing for a WW2 film to do to a youngster more interested in such things as Quatermass and the Pit, etc.Therefore, I will give it the benefit of the doubt here, and a bit higher rating than otherwise. I recently saw it again on TV and it is very much like a TV movie done by HBO or such from the 1980s, yet still was quite intriguing. There's the requisite romantic subplot that interrupts the mission and the action. I suppose that's necessary but I could do without it.I do think the direction, plot and dialog are very adequate, though not extraordinary. But then British films of an average quality always outshine US films of average quality in these areas anyway. There is something about British characters and dialog where understatement is the norm, and they do not have the typically overblown histrionics of US film characters. Plus their dialog is fairly decent without overuse of vulgar terms, unlike US films.

The claim by the movie makers to be using real Messerschmitts is valid, as they are ME 108's. ME 108'S were often seen in War movies: Darryl F Zanuck's D Day being one prime example. ME 108's were a two seater trainer version capable of carrying weapons.The fighter version ME109's seen exploding in the movie Mosquito Squadron are models. Real ME 109's being far too valuable not to mention non existent as there were NO German ME 109's airworthy back then, only Spanish versions. The Spanish versions had a slightly different nose due to different engine plant. The Spanish Messerschmitts 109's were used in the making of the movie The Battle of Britain.