Broadsword calling Danny Boy...

[KathyWoolfe]

And Derren Nesbit is particulary creepy in it.

Derren Nesbit was always creepy.

[KathyWoolfe]

Yup, I reckon I could practically find my way round Schloss Adler blindfolded.)

All of the film was exactly the way I had imagined it when I read the book. This probably had something to do with the fact that Alistair Maclean did the screenplay for the film as well as writing the book.

[Spartacus]

All of the film was exactly the way I had imagined it when I read the book. This probably had something to do with the fact that Alistair Maclean did the screenplay for the film as well as writing the book.

And even more so because he wrote the screenplay first and then novelised it afterwards.

[Spartacus]

Changing some of the names as he went... very odd...

Maybe the production company got sued by someone?

[wendigo100]

Hear hear!

Herr herr!

[Troll]

If memory serves, wasn't there a 1960's era heliocopter featured in what was meant to be a 1940's film?

[Spartacus]

If memory serves, wasn't there a 1960's era heliocopter featured in what was meant to be a 1940's film?

That helicopter entered production in 1947, so it is not as anachronistic as you might think. Both Germans and the allies had helicopters during the war but didn't use them in combat roles.

[Troll]

That helicopter entered production in 1947, so it is not as anachronistic as you might think. Both Germans and the allies had helicopters during the war but didn't use them in combat roles.

Yeah I thought the german 'copters of that era were more like gyro's though

[Spartacus]

Yeah I thought the german 'copters of that era were more like gyro's though

You can see some pics of the main German helicopters of the era here. Some of them look a bit gyro-like but they all had powered rotors.