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Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.Read moreLess
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
The story
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Cast & crew
John ClementsLt. Dick Stacey
Leslie BanksVice Adm. David Wetherby
Jane BaxterCelia Wetherby
Ann ToddKay Gordon
Basil SydneyCapt. Fairfax
Edward ChapmanPapadopoulos
Hugh WilliamsWagner
Frank PettingellFields
Michael WildingLieut. Grant
Michael RennieLieut. Maxwell
Cecil ParkerGerman Air Marshal
John StuartCommdr. HoodExplore the crew
- Director
- Sergei Nolbandov
- Screenplay
- Diana Morgan
- Screenplay
- Patrick Kirwan
- Screenplay
- Sergei Nolbandov
- Screenplay
- Austin Melford
- Producer
- Michael Balcon
- Editor
- Robert Hamer
- Director of Photography
- Eric Cross