The Thousand Plane Raid

The basic theme of this movie, The 1000 Plane Raid, was a U.S. Army Air Force colonel convinced the Allies during World War II, that a daylight bombing raid of Germany will bring a quick end to the war. Christopher George, Laraine Stephens, J.D. Cannon and Gary Marshall - plus a host of other well-known actors were superb in their performance. I have read other reviews about the lack of detail due to a "Hollywood" presentation for the beginning of massive daylight bombing. That is so noted. However with the use of actual World War II movies in color - as well as the rest of the film - for the inexperienced viewer, this movie was an excellent introduction to basic information why such a military strategy became necessary.Hitler refused to sue for peace - he was a maniac who destroyed his own nation. This was one of many strategies used by the Allies of WW II, to shorten the war in Europe. I am pleased to have this vintage movie in my collection and give it 5 gold stars! The audio is good and the quality of the movie itself due to its age. I have seen several DVD movies and documentaries on such plane raids; but this movie gave me a basic introduction about the strategy. I was a field grade officer in the USAF and found it very instructive; that includes some of my military Veteran friends who watched it on my TV and arrived at the same conclusion.

While this one takes a lot of liberties with reality, movies about the Mighty Eighth are pretty scarce and this one is like watching an extended episode of Twelve O'Clock High without the quality of a storyline of the latter. I don't know how I missed this one over the years, as I thought I'd seen every WWII movie out there. If you don't take this one too seriously, you'll enjoy it. Otherwise, if you want a cliff notes version of the air war with a heavy dosage of old war movie cliches, you'll have fun seeing how it all gets worked in here. Don'y set your expectations too high and realize that this one is typical of its era.

I've tried two copies and neither will play on a standard Region-1 BR/DVD Player. Amazon did refund is the only up-side.

Love ww2 B17 bomber movies those boys were incredibley brave my grandfather was a radionavigator he never flew again after the war I loved him dearly so these movies remind of him and how brave he really was!

We purchased this item because several parts of it had been filmed in Santa Maria California at the airport. It is not the greatest film in the world but we must have it for the local history of it. We tried to play it on our Blue-ray player and it does not work on it (causing us to return the first one we received). When we received the second copy and the same problem was there, I tried it in the regular VCR and it worked. Thought I better point that out for anyone that buys it.

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An air attack of a thousand B-17 bomber planes over a target in Germany during World War ll, is the plan. The Mirisch film stars Christopher George as Colonel Brandon, Laraine Stephens, J.D. Cannon, and Gary Marshall. The cast also includes stars Gavin McLeod, and Ben Murphy. This is a good movie, but since this was recorded for on demand in DVD-R, the picture and sound quality is not the best. This is because it did not use the DVD system which uses a variable transfer (bit)rate for its MPEG-2 data compression(encoding). The bit rate is the data transfer speed and refer to the amount of information that can be handled by the system in one second. The higher the bit rate, the larger the volume of information that can be tranfered or stored, and the higher quality of video image, as well as, sound can be handled. You can see digital artifacts in parts of movie, but otherwise a movie to watch.

I ended up returning it because it would not play on my DVD player