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World War Ii | Air Force
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Best Effects Special Effects | 1956
Best British Film | 1956
Best British Screenplay | 1956 | R.C.
Best Film from any Source | 1956
The squadron's mascot, "Nigger", was given beers to drink as depicted in the movie. However, the dog had a habit of urinating on people's legs which made the dog unpopular with many of the squadron's personnel. Also, the dog was killed when hit by a car, but unlike in the movie, the driver did attempt to avoid the dog and the occupants of the car were injured as a result. Any reports of Nigger's grave being opened, and the bones revealed proving not to be of a dog, are false. The grave was never opened, and is protected to this day.
Footage used to show the bombs as they skipped on the surface of the water towards the dams was drawn from footage of the bombs being tested. Backspinning the bombs gave them gyroscopic stability when skipping across the water, then held them against the dams as they sank. To conceal the backspin, which was still a state secret at the time of filming, the bombs in the footage were painted over frame by frame.
According to Richard Todd's autobiography, the scene that upset him most during filming was the finale where his character Guy Gibson goes off to write letters to the families of the men killed on the raid. Todd, a paratrooper combat veteran of World War II, had written such letters for real. The scene brought it all back for him.
There was no follow-up raid because aerial photography showed that the new anti-air raid defences on the dam installed after the attack would have made a second raid suicidal.
The bombs shown in the movie were the wrong shape because the actual shape (a stubby cylinder) was still secret at the time.
"Official, Ministry of Aircraft Production: You say you need a Wellington Bomber for test drops. They're worth their weight in gold. Do you really think the authorities will lend you one? What possible argument could I put forward to get you a Wellington? Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.: Well, if you told them I designed it, do you think that might help?"
"Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.: Do you know how much water it takes the Germans to make a ton of steel? Doctor: I haven't the least idea. Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.: One hundred tons. Now just look at this. [gestures to a map on his desk] Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.: The whole of this great arsenal of war factories in the Ruhr depends for its water on three enormous dams. The Moehne. The Eder. And, the Sorpe. They control the level of the canals and supply a lot of hydroelectric power as well. When those are full they hold four hundred *million* tons of water. Just think of the chaos if we could break those walls down."
