- Awesome Moments: Today probably the most awkward one on film. "It's Nigger! They've done it!"
- Awesome Music: The main theme is unforgettable.
- Funny Moments:
- The squadron needs to let off steam ahead of the raid. "Right, boys: off with their bags [pants]!"
- In the book, on the train to London to be decorated following the operation, one of the squadron gets very drunk. The end result: "I losht my pantsh. Very awkward. Can't shee the King without my pantsh." There seems to be a theme going here...
- Retroactive Recognition:
- A young Patrick McGoohan makes an uncredited appearance as an RAF guard.
- A young Robert Shaw is Flight Sgt. J. Pulford.
- Special Effect Failure: The shot where Popsy crashes makes it a little too obvious his Lancaster is a model, even by 1950s standards: the plane visibly bounces off the ground while still in one piece before the pyrotechnics go off.
- Tear Jerker:
- Gibson's dog's death.
- The ending.Barnes Wallis: Fifty-six men! If I'd known it was going to be like this I'd never have started.
- And later supremely understated by Guy Gibson:Gibson: I've got to go and write some letters.
- Even more so when you know that as an officer in WW2, Richard Todd had had to write those letters for real.
- A Real Life version: as of 2015, all of the members of the squadron have now passed on.
- Values Dissonance: Naming the dog after the N-word, natch. Even in 1955, it was not a word Americans used in polite company, but it was acceptable in the UK.
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