HOUR OF THE EAGLE
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Title: HOUR OF THE EAGLE
Reference number: 2856
Date: 1975
Director: filmed by Ian Rintoul
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 19.18 mins
Description:
Dramatised account of the Luftwaffe bombing raid on Edinburgh on 16th October, 1939 told from the viewpoint of both sides of the combat. [Awarded in 1976 Movie Maker's Ten Best Winner and Best Editing and Best Soundtrack Trophy].
Entered in the Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1975. See paper archives for background information. See also film refs. 2700, 2701, 2855.
TV extracts have been shown on BBC, Grampian TV, Granada TV and Scottish TV. Also shown to the public in Glasgow Film Theatre.
Credits:
sd. mix John Welford
sequence d. Jim Cuthbert, Ron Miller
p.a. John Barron, Les Knott
effects ass. Steven Begg, Robert Stephen
military res. J.J. Millar
titles Alexander Peacock
narr. David Harper, Egan Miessnor, Douglas Strang
cast Ron Fraser, Steward Pyke, John Hilton, John Amos, Larry Sutherland, Norman Tinlin, John Avon, George Lawrie, John Smith and Officers and men of the Royal Navy RNVR (Forth Division), Royal Air Force, Air Training Corps, Territorial Army
Shotlist: Dramatised account of Luftwaffe bombing raid on Edinburgh on October 16th, 1939 told from the viewpoint of both sides of the combat (20.00)