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On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
Luca Slade
- RAF Serviceman
- (uncredited)
Mario Torella
- Naval Commander
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAlthough this is the short story's first screen adaptation, the story has been read nearly every Christmas Eve, or the Friday night closest to it, on CBC Radio One's radio show, "As it Happens" by Alan Maitland since 1979.
- GoofsCanadian pilots used the standard RAF palm out salute - not the palm down 'snap' of the US forces. The phonetic alphabet in WW2 used Charlie Mike Love Dog for C, M, L and D (not Not 'Crocodile', 'Monkey', 'Delta, 'Lima''). The NATO 'standard' was not adopted until 1956 No-one in the RAF ever referred to it as 'the Force' - it was 'the mob' Finally, collar attached shirts didn't come along until 1963. The closest RAF base to Norwich would have been RAF Coltishall.. The Early Warning radar at RAF Trimingham would have picked up a Vampire while it was still in Germany.
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Johnny Kavanagh: Okay, we're three miles out. Follow me down, I'm taking you home.
- SoundtracksIn the Bleak Midwinter
Written by Christina Georgina Rossetti (as Christina Rossetti)
Performed by Sam Brophy
Courtesy of BMG Music Production
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Dubious casting choices made by Disney left me feeling jarred
This is one of my favourite short stories by Frederick Forsyth.
I was looking forward to this film -- the visuals were nothing short of superb, but some of the elements introduced by Disney were disconcerting, even jarring.
It would appear that some of Disney's choices for acting talent were driven by political correctness. I very much doubt that there were that many black RAF personnel in 1957. The U. S. Air Force may have had many African-American personnel, but I doubt that the RAF had.
What I really found jarring, even grating, was an air-traffic-controller with a noticeable African accent. Could they not at least have featured an actor with a prominent English accent?
I was looking forward to this film -- the visuals were nothing short of superb, but some of the elements introduced by Disney were disconcerting, even jarring.
It would appear that some of Disney's choices for acting talent were driven by political correctness. I very much doubt that there were that many black RAF personnel in 1957. The U. S. Air Force may have had many African-American personnel, but I doubt that the RAF had.
What I really found jarring, even grating, was an air-traffic-controller with a noticeable African accent. Could they not at least have featured an actor with a prominent English accent?
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