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6.9/10   2,425 votes
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Director:
Ken Annakin
Writers:
Ken Annakin (written by)
Jack Davies (written by)
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Release Date:
16 June 1965 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Comedy | Action more
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or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
Plot:
Sabotage efforts damage an international air race. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 6 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Actor Jean-Pierre Cassel Dies
 (From WENN. 23 April 2007)
User Comments:
Playful comedy epic. more (34 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
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 (as Gert Frobe)

Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Pierre Dubois
Irina Demick ... Brigitte / Ingrid / Marlene / Françoise / Yvette / Betty
Eric Sykes ... Courtney

Red Skelton ... 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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
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Runtime:
138 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English | French | German | Italian | Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)
Certification:
Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Finland:S | Norway:7 | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:U
Filming Locations:
Booker Airfield, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK more
Company:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Two of the replicas (the "1910 Bristol Boxkite" and the "1911 Roe IV Triplane") built for the film still fly across the English countryside as both are preserved in the "Shuttleworth Collection" based at Old Warden, Bedfordshire. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The next person to take off after Orville at the start of the race is the naval officer and his dog. When he is shown to be moving down the runway to take off, Orville's plane is still sitting on the runway behind the naval officer's plane when it should have already been airborne. more
Quotes:
[Reading from flight instruction manual]
Colonel Manfred von Holstein: Step one: sit down.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Beast of Yucca Flats (#7.21)" (1995) more
Soundtrack:
LA CALUNNIA UN VENTICELLO more

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Playful comedy epic., 24 December 2000
Author: Glenn Andreiev (gandreiev@aol.com) from Huntington, NY

You'll never forget the silly, marching band styled theme song to this 1965 comedy. Made during a period of big budgeted, epic, widescreen comedies with a big cast. Stuart Whitman is charming as the American entry into a multi-national air race between London and Paris in 1910. Sarah Miles, Terry-Thomas, Gert Forde, Benny Hill and James Fox lend fine support. Lots of well arranged, well thought out slapstick as well as low key, charcater driven comedy (James Fox and Whitman are great as romantic rivals forced to share the same breathing space.) At 2 hours 18 minutes, alot of fun.

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