Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes

Year:
Duration:
138 min
Genres:
Adventure | Comedy | Family
IMDB rate:
7
Director:
Ken Annakin
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1965-06-16
Filming Locations: Booker Airfield, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Earnings
Budget: $5,600,000
Gross: $31,111,111 (USA)SEK 7,566,000 (Sweden)
Cast
Actor
Character
Stuart Whitman
Orvil Newton
Sarah Miles
Patricia Rawnsley
James Fox
Richard Mays
Alberto Sordi
Count Emilio Ponticelli
Robert Morley
Lord Rawnsley
Gert Fröbe
Colonel Manfred Von Holstein
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Pierre Dubois
Irina Demick
Brigitte / Ingrid / Marlene / Françoise / Yvette / Betty
Eric Sykes
Courtney
Red Skelton
The Neanderthal Man
Terry-Thomas
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage
Benny Hill
Fire Chief Perkins
Yûjirô Ishihara
Yamamoto (as Yujiro Ishihara)
Flora Robson
Mother Superior
Karl Michael Vogler
Captain Rumpelstoss
Sam Wanamaker
George Gruber
Eric Barker
French Postman
Maurice Denham
Trawler Skipper
Fred Emney
Colonel
Gordon Jackson
MacDougal
Davy Kaye
Jean
John Le Mesurier
French Painter
Jeremy Lloyd
Lieutenant Parsons
Zena Marshall
Countess Sophia Ponticelli
Millicent Martin
Airline Hostess
Eric Pohlmann
Italian Mayor
Marjorie Rhodes
Maid
Norman Rossington
Assistant Fire Chief
William Rushton
Tremayne Gascoyne
Graham Stark
Fireman
Jimmy Thompson
Photographer
Tony Hancock
Harry Popperwell
James Robertson Justice
Narration Spoken by (voice)
Gerald Campion
Fireman (uncredited)
Pauline Chamberlain
Woman in Dover Scene (uncredited)
Robin Chapman
Postman (uncredited)
Cicely Courtneidge
Muriel, Colonel's Wife (uncredited)
Vernon Dobtcheff
Member of the French Team (uncredited)
Maurice Dunster
French Policeman (uncredited)
Gary Graham
Child at Air Show (uncredited)
Max Howard
Boy in crowd (uncredited)
Judy Huxtable
Girl on Beach (uncredited)
Nigel Kingsley
Youngest Child of Ponticelli (uncredited)
Ferdy Mayne
French Official (uncredited)
Bill Nagy
American Journalist (uncredited)
Steve Plytas
Continental Journalist (uncredited)
Nicholas Smith
Fireman (uncredited)
Ronnie Stevens
R.A.C. Officer (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
First full length feature film of Vernon Dobtcheff.
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Director and co-writer Ken Annakin had been working on an adventure film about transatlantic flight, when the producer's bankrutpcy aborted the production. He then made this film.
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The Passat Ornithopter airplane in this movie was given to Cole Palen for promoting this movie. It can now be seen at the Old Rhinebeck Areodrome.
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Goofs
Close inspection in many scenes reveals that the "sky" in the background of some scenes is a backdrop, with many visible seams and lines in it.
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Newton supposedly loses his trousers after using his belt to repair a wing strut. It is impossible for trousers to fall off over boots.
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The configuration of several aircraft changes from shot to shot. This includes the Bristol Boxkite which, in some scenes has two rudders and in others has three. The Antoinette is changed the most. In close ups it has thin "wing warping" wings. In others it has thick modern glider wings with ailerons with redundant support wires added. These changes occurred when it became clear that the accurate replicas of 1910 flying machines, originally built were not airworthy enough. Details are provided in Allen Wheeler's book "Building Aeroplanes for Those Magnificent Men."
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Quotes
Captain Rumpelstoss: But... how will I learn to fly, Herr Colonel?
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Count Emilio Ponticelli: Like-a Caesar, we go to England!
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Count Emilio Ponticelli: It is a pity that the race will now be won by a Protestant.
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Photos from cast
Michael Trubshawe
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