old gliding movie

[jim]

In 1954 or 1955 I saw a short movie at a local theater about gliding.
It was in black and white and involved young men building/repairing a
glider in secret from the military/police. They winch launched the
glider which was flown by their leader. The young pilot was wounded
by a military rifleman as the glider took off. The pilot was dead
when the others ran to glider after it landed and carried the pilot on
their shoulders from the airfield.

What was this short feature that I saw?

[gs03jsa]

On Jul 5, 7:11*pm, jim > wrote:
> In 1954 or 1955 I saw a short movie at a local theater about gliding.
> It was in black and white and involved young men building/repairing a
> glider in secret from the military/police. *They winch launched the
> glider which was flown by their leader. *The young pilot was wounded
> by a military rifleman as the glider took off. *The pilot was dead
> when the others ran to glider after it landed and carried the pilot on
> their shoulders from the airfield.
>
> What was this short feature that I saw?

I'm not familiar with this movie - but it sounds like it was based
loosely on the Colditz glider...?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colditz_Story

I learned about Colditz via PBS...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/glider.html

[Paul Remde]

Hi,

Actually the movie "The Colditz Story" (mentioned below) is a great escape
film, but it does not include any mention of the Colditz glider. I rented it
hope it mentioned the Colditz glider, but it didn't. But I did enjoy the
film.

The TV film "The Birdmen" is very loosely based on the true story of the
Colditz glider.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066833/

Paul Remde

"gs03jsa" > wrote in message
...
On Jul 5, 7:11 pm, jim > wrote:
> In 1954 or 1955 I saw a short movie at a local theater about gliding.
> It was in black and white and involved young men building/repairing a
> glider in secret from the military/police. They winch launched the
> glider which was flown by their leader. The young pilot was wounded
> by a military rifleman as the glider took off. The pilot was dead
> when the others ran to glider after it landed and carried the pilot on
> their shoulders from the airfield.
>
> What was this short feature that I saw?

I'm not familiar with this movie - but it sounds like it was based
loosely on the Colditz glider...?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colditz_Story

I learned about Colditz via PBS...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/glider.html

[jim]

On Jul 13, 9:02*am, "Paul Remde" > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Actually the movie "The Colditz Story" (mentioned below) is a great escape
> film, but it does not include any mention of the Colditz glider. I rented it
> hope it mentioned the Colditz glider, but it didn't. *But I did enjoy the
> film.
>
> The TV film "The Birdmen" is very loosely based on the true story of the
> Colditz glider.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066833/
>
> Paul Remde
>
> "gs03jsa" > wrote in message
>
> ...
> On Jul 5, 7:11 pm, jim > wrote:
>
> > In 1954 or 1955 I saw a short movie at a local theater about gliding.
> > It was in black and white and involved young men building/repairing a
> > glider in secret from the military/police. They winch launched the
> > glider which was flown by their leader. The young pilot was wounded
> > by a military rifleman as the glider took off. The pilot was dead
> > when the others ran to glider after it landed and carried the pilot on
> > their shoulders from the airfield.
>
> > What was this short feature that I saw?
>
> I'm not familiar with this movie - but it sounds like it was based
> loosely on the Colditz glider...?...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colditz_Story
>
> I learned about Colditz via PBS...http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/glider.html

Thanks for the Colditz reminder. I have read about this effort by
prisoners of war, have seen the PBS story, but this does not seem
related to the film I saw. This film inspired me to build model
gliders which led to a ride in a TG-3 and lessons as a teenager. Just
trying to find the catalyst that started a lifetime of aviation.