Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

• Guest 703

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  4 March 2011     13:0495135
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  I'm just watching this on TV, it's from 1965 so before I came back to Dover after my schooldays in the north, does anyone on here remember it being filmed here or even appear in it!
  
  One very un PC moment, it had the British fliers persuading a German to tombstone headfirst into shallow water
• Guest 651

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  4 March 2011     13:1195139
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  Is a great fikm to watch in slow-mo to see all the mistakes - like the 1960s ferries, a nuclear power statation and even a corner of Gateway Flats in the beach scene !!
  Been nice knowing you :)
• howard mcsweeney1

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  4 March 2011     13:1295140
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  i suppose it is too late to send the cast a copy of that dvd now.
• Guest 703

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  4 March 2011     13:1395141
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  I liked the idea of waiters serving champagne on the beach!
• Guest 703

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  4 March 2011     13:1595143
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  Some more boobs here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059797/goofs
• Diana Woodridge

  • Location: Dover
  4 March 2011     13:4195145
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  I was working at The White Cliffs Hotel (now the Churchill) when it was being filmed. Unfortunately none of the stars saw fit to come over even though they were only just opposite. The only thing we got to do was go over and look at the vintage cars. They were only there for a couple of days as I recall. I believe it was actually filmed in 1964 as I was in Birmingham and London 1965/66.
• Guest 649

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  4 March 2011     17:2995183
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  yes I do infact my first job when I came out of the Army was a driver for Gillberts the baker and I had to take bread and rolls to the sites where they were filming and yes I did see some of the stars.
• Brian Dixon

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  4 March 2011     17:4495187
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  i remember seeing the film but not the makeing of,probably still at scool at the time.
  
  but do remember going up lydden spout to watch them filming a scene from the battle of britan.[the bombing of the radar station].
• Guest 698

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  4 March 2011     18:0495188
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  Connie Rees, one of our customers, who died in 2009 aged 100, appeared as an extra, waving at the planes as they flew over the White cliffs.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 700

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  4 March 2011     23:3495239
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  Two images Bob took during the filming, you can see Eric Sykes in the top picture
  
  

  

  
  

  
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