Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

Directors

Ken Annakin

Cast

Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe, Irina Demick, Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes

The story

A brief narration outlines man's first attempts to fly since the Stone Age, seen with footage from the silent film era, and man being represented by a "test pilot" encountering periodic misfortune in his attempts. In 1910, British newspaper magnate Lord Rawnsley forbids his would-be aviatrix daughter, ardent suffragette Patricia, to fly. Richard Mays, a young officer in the Coldstream Guards and Patricia's fiancé, conceives the idea of an air race from London to Paris to advance the cause of British aviation and his career.

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