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12. Yes it had many logical plot fallacies, there are websites devoted to it.

Sat Jul 8, 2023, 07:24 PM

Jul 2023

It was fascinating for me because of when it was released, just about at a peak in the Cold War, when USSR invaded Czechoslovakia.

They could never make that movie today. It would all be computer graphics. The stunt men would be too big a risk, they would never replicate the stars, even the small European towns no longer resemble the 1940s. They couldn't afford it, lengthwise or budgetwise.

The helicopter was post war era. They never ran out of bullets or explosives, and the Germans were such bad shots they only got nicked once.

Darren Nesbitt is the last surviving cast member, has a couple of entertaining interviews on YouTube.

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