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Flying Fortress (1942)

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Film details

Featuring

Richard Greene Carla Lehmann Betty Stockfeld
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1942
Genre

War
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

A young American millionaire employs a private pilot who accidentally kills one of his passengers during a stunt. For allowing it, the pilot is severely reprimanded at the inquest. His sister, a newspaper reporter determines to get even with the millionaire who employed him in the first place, but falls in love with him. All feuds are resolved when the two men first join the Air Ferry Service to pilot Flying Fortresses from Canada to Britain, and then the RAF.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Jim Spence
    
    Richard Greene
  - Sydney Kelly
    
    Carla Lehmann
  - Lady Deborah
    
    Betty Stockfeld
  - Herrington
    
    Charles Heslop
  - Sheepshead
    
    Joss Ambler
  - Lord Ottershaw
    
    Sydney King
  - Sky Kelly
    
    Donald Stewart
  - Dan Billings
    
    Edward Rigby
  - Taxi-driver
    
    Hartnell, Billy
  - Meteorologist
    
    John Boxer
  - cast member
    
    Graeme Muir
  - Radio Operator
    
    Peter Croft
  - cast member
    
    Tommy Duggan
  - Beam Gunner
    
    Michael Whittaker
  - Coroner
    
    Percy Parsons
  - Control Tower Operator
    
    Gerry Wilmot
  - Connor
    
    Robert Beatty
  - Group Captain
    
    William Holland
  - Fire Controller
    
    Hubert Gregg
  - Wilkinson
    
    Basil Radford
  - Rescue Foreman
    
    John Slater
  - Waiter
    
    Kenneth Henry
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Directed by
    
    Walter Forde
  - Production Company
    
    Warner Brothers First National Productions
  - Producer
    
    A.H. Salomon
  - Production Manager
    
    Richmond, Hal
  - [Assistant Production Manager]
    
    Percy Hermes
  - [Assistant Director]
    
    Brian Humphries
  - Scenario and Dialogue by
    
    Gordon Wellesley
  - Scenario and Dialogue by
    
    Edward Dryhurst
  - Scenario and Dialogue by
    
    Brock Williams
  - Original Story by
    
    Brock Williams
  - Photography
    
    Basil Emmott
  - Camera Operator
    
    Gus Drisse
  - Special Effects
    
    Henry Harris
  - Editor
    
    Terence Fisher
  - Art Director
    
    Norman Arnold
  - Music
    
    Jack Beaver
  - Sound Supervisor
    
    Ernest A. Royls
  - Sound Recording
    
    Cecil V. Thornton
  - Studio
    
    Teddington Studios

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