Ships with Wings (1941)
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.
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Cast
- John Clements — Lt. Dick Stacey
- Leslie Banks — Vice Adm. David Wetherby
- Jane Baxter — Celia Wetherby
- Ann Todd — Kay Gordon
- Basil Sydney — Capt. Fairfax
- Edward Chapman — Papadopoulos
- Hugh Williams — Wagner
- Frank Pettingell — Fields
- Michael Wilding — Lieut. Grant
- Michael Rennie — Lieut. Maxwell
- Cecil Parker — German Air Marshal
- John Stuart — Commdr. Hood
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