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HARRY MOUNT

LANCASTER (PG)

Well, that’s the 2023 Oscar for Best Original Score sorted out.

The opening credits of this exemplary documentary show a Lancaster bomber, flying over a lake and dam. The background tune isn’t The Dam Busters March, as you might imagine, given that the Lancaster was used in the 1943 raid.

Instead, you hear the stirring music of the low, gentle, rising hum of the Lancaster’s Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

The engines of the ‘Lanc’ – as

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