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On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
Luca Slade
- RAF Serviceman
- (uncredited)
Mario Torella
- Naval Commander
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAlthough this is the short story's first screen adaptation, the story has been read nearly every Christmas Eve, or the Friday night closest to it, on CBC Radio One's radio show, "As it Happens" by Alan Maitland since 1979.
- GoofsCanadian pilots used the standard RAF palm out salute - not the palm down 'snap' of the US forces. The phonetic alphabet in WW2 used Charlie Mike Love Dog for C, M, L and D (not Not 'Crocodile', 'Monkey', 'Delta, 'Lima''). The NATO 'standard' was not adopted until 1956 No-one in the RAF ever referred to it as 'the Force' - it was 'the mob' Finally, collar attached shirts didn't come along until 1963. The closest RAF base to Norwich would have been RAF Coltishall.. The Early Warning radar at RAF Trimingham would have picked up a Vampire while it was still in Germany.
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Johnny Kavanagh: Okay, we're three miles out. Follow me down, I'm taking you home.
- SoundtracksIn the Bleak Midwinter
Written by Christina Georgina Rossetti (as Christina Rossetti)
Performed by Sam Brophy
Courtesy of BMG Music Production
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Poor special effects diminish an already mediocre film
The story is fine, but unremarkable.
What I found distracting was the subpar CGI. The plane looks like a plastic model during the exterior shots, an effect exxagerated by the studio lights shining all over it.
Similarly, you can easily discern the studio accent lighting in the eyes of the pilot, and on the surface of the cockpit cowling.
I never believed for an instant that the wayward pilot was actually in an aircraft. The monochromatic acting by Radcliffe was probably influenced by the fact that he was sitting in a mockup in a studio somewhere. The flat delivery of his lines merely underscored the low budget feel of this short.
Even the fog at the end looked like it was being generated just out of sight of the camera, and then being gently blown across the scene.
Travolta's appearance was probably filmed in a day... more likely just a couple of hours. He's... there... and that's all that can be said of him.
What I found distracting was the subpar CGI. The plane looks like a plastic model during the exterior shots, an effect exxagerated by the studio lights shining all over it.
Similarly, you can easily discern the studio accent lighting in the eyes of the pilot, and on the surface of the cockpit cowling.
I never believed for an instant that the wayward pilot was actually in an aircraft. The monochromatic acting by Radcliffe was probably influenced by the fact that he was sitting in a mockup in a studio somewhere. The flat delivery of his lines merely underscored the low budget feel of this short.
Even the fog at the end looked like it was being generated just out of sight of the camera, and then being gently blown across the scene.
Travolta's appearance was probably filmed in a day... more likely just a couple of hours. He's... there... and that's all that can be said of him.
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