Lancaster Skies
A private showing of Lancaster Skies to veterans of Bomber Command and their guests at International Bomber Command Centre overlooking Lincoln Cathedral.
IBCC officially opened earlier this year, a centre, a digital archive, exhibitions and the Memorial Spire.
An appropriate setting for a private screening of Lancaster Skies.
A brief introduction by the producer, the film follows the lives of a Lancaster crew after they lost their skipper, a homagae to war films of the 1940s and 1950,
The film starts with a Lancaster being attacked by German night fighters, on landing they discover their skipper has been fatally wounded.
The crew are dysfunctional, can barely cope, they then have to cope with a new skipper, a rather aloof former fighter pilot.
The new skipper is keen to be in the air, take the fight to the Germans, the crew on the other hand are happy to remain grounded and spend their time down the pub.
They are given a mission, in the same aircraft they last flew in, now patched up. On their return they are again attacked.
The film is in black and white, the focus is on the crew.
The genre is less of the war films, more that of a series of working class films that were released in the 1960s, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey all from the same film studio, Woodfall Films.
Whilst the film was being shown, a runner ran from IBCC to RAF Scampton and back.
Lancaster Skies will be shown in selected cinemas. Please lobby local cinemas if wish to see.
