Eagles over London - WTH?

[Mango]

Has anyone seen this? A bad Italian movie on BoB, but it's actually very entertaining if you don't take it too seriously. There's an awesome scene showing the evacuation at Dunkirk, and the action sequences are very well done for a low budget film.

However, one thing hit me across the face like a brick. In the scramble scenes, the British airmen would jump off their rumps and race across the field to man their.... Messerschmitts!! I sh*t you not! Me109's painted in RAF colors. And once they got up in the air to intercept the invaders, who do they meet? Spitfires! In German markings!! I thought I might be having a stroke, but this was the case for the whole movie! It was so weird, I couldn't tell who was who during the combat sequences.

I have to know if this was just a major screwup, or some kind of easter egg for those of us in the know. What do you think?

[Romanator21]

I saw the trailer and I almost didn't believe it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJFv6ISzO4

German AT-6, British Bf-109, and German God-knows-what. It's impossible to tell who is fighting who in the air!

[AndyJWest]

...the action sequences are very well done for a low budget film

That is probably because they weren't:

When Enzo G. Castellari finished the film Kill Them All and Come Back Alone, he asked the producers what their next film would be. They replied a war epic about the battle of Britain. Enzo thought that was a great idea but the producers had their sights on Alberto De Martino directing. The producers stipulated that stock footage of the actual battle of Britain needed to be used in the film and that it should be used in a split screen method.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_Over_London

[Mango]

I was referring to the action outside of the stock footage. You can see sequences that were obviously done in a studio, but nevertheless well executed.

Although it was very interesting to see the stock footage as well. Didn't like the split-screen stuff, though.

[jameson]

They got something wrong, where's the Americans? According to Hollywood they won the war. Seriously you'd have to be pretty out of it to watch it all the way through, lol!

[FAE_Cazador]

Originally Posted by Mango

However, one thing hit me across the face like a brick. In the scramble scenes, the British airmen would jump off their rumps and race across the field to man their.... Messerschmitts!! I sh*t you not! Me109's painted in RAF colors. And once they got up in the air to intercept the invaders, who do they meet? Spitfires! In German markings!! I thought I might be having a stroke, but this was the case for the whole movie! It was so weird, I couldn't tell who was who during the combat sequences.

Right ! Merlin-powered, Spanish-built Bf-109s , made by Hispano Aviacion Works at Sevilla (local code name Ha-1112L "Buchon") in British marks on one side and some strange Spitfires (Merlin engine, eliptical wing but they seem deformed) coming from where?, post-war Italian Air Force?, in German markings.

American contribution comes from T-6 Texan strafing British soldiers on the crowded beaches at Dunkirk !! (with German marks, of course)

Really weird !!

That film was shown on 1969, so it is supposed that many people that fought WWII were still alive and could watch this film. I can't imagine what they would think !.

[Friendly_flyer]

I really don't think they thought it mattered much back then. See any 60'ies war movie with planes, and you'll see the strangest planes standing in for others. I guess when they showed e.g. strafing, it was the strafing itself, not the plane, that mattered to them