Scenes filmed also in Munich and Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.
Bert Trautmann:
I'd rather have danced with you than stood on the battlefield.
Friar's trips to the camp to collect Bert are filmed in very hilly country, echoing the cliche of rural England. In actuality the landscape between St Helens and Makerfield, where Trautmann was interned, is fairly flat, and would have been quite industrial even at the time.
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