At the beginning of the movie, Lt. Col. Kiley (Henry Fonda) takes a photo from an airplane of Col. Hessler (Robert Shaw) who's a car passenger on the ground. But later, when Lt. Col. Kiley produces a snapshot and asks for info on the German colonel, the pic is a closeup low angle shot of Hessler that couldn't possibly have been taken from a plane. As a matter of fact, the photo is just a still of Hessler looking up at the plane. :)
shareEven when I saw the film as a child I thought it looked wrong. It looks like a publicity still. It would have been relatively easy to take a photo of Robert Shaw in the car from a crane.
shareYes. It made me suspect that, after the war, Kiley found employment with the British Secret Service. Especially in Istanbul. How else to explain that glamour shot photo of Tatiana Romanova in "From Russia with Love"?
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It wasn't even a photo of Shaw looking up at the plane - it was a profile shot, with Shaw gazing intently at something off to his right.
Which was what made it all the more absurd. He's being buzzed by an enemy plane, close enough to throw a rock at it, and he isn't even looking at the damned thing? What's he doing, admiring the scenic desert terrain of Belgium?
This film is 2.5 hours of none-stop *beep* I Loved that Nazis war center ... straight out of a James Bond film! It is a crime that this thing was released on an unsuspecting public. More so it is a shame that this film is what have to memorialize a great battle in which many gave their lives.
shareI agree with you about the Nazi war center. One could almost make a collection of them through a number of war films (Patton immediately comes to mind). They do seem to have a uniform Ken Adam design look to them. I've always wondered what the blinking lights were supposed to represent.
"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"