Buses on Screen > Films > Films B > La battaglia d'Inghilterra AKA Battle Command AKA Stukas über London (1969, Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson) La battaglia d'Inghilterra AKA Battle Command AKA Stukas über London (1969, Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson) | |
Released in the same year as, but on a fraction of the budget of, the epic 'Battle of Britain' this Italian-made oddity goes by a whole host of different titles.
Whereas its British cousin tried for historical accuracy, this applies a spaghetti western-like approach, although some of it is actually filmed in London (Holland Park).
The Union Flags look completely wrong, there are Spitfires with German markings and Messerschmitts with RAF markings.
An aerial view of a night bombing raid is a laughable model with torches behind a blanket, so it's no surprise when the bus that features in the film is not an STL or LT, but a postwar AEC RT. It's a smart one, though: RT2473 (KXW102) was new with a Weymann body, but received a Saunders roofbox body on overhaul in 1965, and it's in this form that it's seen here. Reportedly it was sold to a Spanish owner in 1967.
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