One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft is Missing is a 1942 British war film, the fourth collaboration between the British writerdirectorproducer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the first film they made under the banner of The Archers. Although considered a wartime propaganda film, and made under the authority of the Ministry of Information as part of a series of film productions specifically aimed at morale in the United Kingdom, the story and production values elevated it from the usual jingoistic fare. Today, One of Our Aircraft is Missing is considered one of the best of British films of the era.

De Vries pretends to be proGerman, blaming the British for killing her husband in a bombing raid whereas he is actually in England working as a radio announcer. She hides them in her mansion, despite the Germans being garrisoned there. Under cover of an air raid, she leads them to a rowing boat. The men row undetected to the sea, but a bridge sentry finally spots them and a shot seriously wounds the oldest man, Sir George Corbett Godfrey Tearle. Nevertheless, they reach the North Sea. They take shelter in a German rescue buoy, where they take two shotdown enemy aviators prisoner, but not before one sends a radio message. By chance, two British boats arrive first. Because Corbett cannot be moved, they simply tow the buoy back to England. Three months later, he is fully recovered, and the crew board their new fourengine heavy bomber, a Short Stirling.The attitude of the Dutch people towards the Nazi occupation is exemplified by two Dutch women who help the airmen at great personal risk to themselves and these explain why the Dutch were willing to help Allied airmen even though those same airmen were sometimes dropping bombs on the Netherlands and killing Dutch people ........

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