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Mrs. Mike (1949)
Fairytale
This movie was written by someone who has never been to the locations depicted. It's not credible from the gitgo. For starters, who would send their sickly daughter to frozen wasteland from Boston? What daughter would marry a foreign national in a foreign country without getting her parents consent. No one in their right mind would travel alone in the barren lands for weeks with no backup in case of problems wearing lipstick. What need is there for law enforcement where there are few people? How does the hero navigate where there are no markers and he never refers to a map? Wading through all this silly tosh in the first few minutes destroys the credibility of the rest of the film.
The Winds of War (1983)
An isolated fault
My overall review is similarly enthusiastic to numerous others. There is an isolated technical fault that does not detract from the overall merit of the film that only an aviator would notice in the episode "Defiance".
Reference is made to a British RADAR technology with the incorrect abbreviation of "RDF". "RDF" stands for Radio Direction Finding and has nothing to do with RADAR. The correct term is "IFF" - Identification Friend or Foe, a RADAR technology that allows ground-base RADAR to distinguish between British aircraft and German ones through the use of a transceiver device in each Allied plane.
The technology is still in use today in civil aviation. Frankly I am a bit surprised this mistake was not caught by the many experts who worked on the script.