Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Or, How I Flew from London to Paris inHoursMinutes is a 1965 British comedy film starring Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, TerryThomas and James Fox, directed and cowritten by Ken Annakin.

Invitations and newspaper advertising go out worldwide, and dozens of participants arrive in England with their aircraft. The aircraft are housed and maintained in the hangars at the airfield on the Brookley Motor Racing Track actually a reasonably historical representation of the contemporary Brooklands, where the fliers make practice runs in the days prior to the race. During this time, predictable patriotic antagonisms quickly develop. Most of the contestants conform to national stereotypes, including the bythebook, monoclewearing Prussian officer Colonel Manfred von Holstein Gert Frbe the impetuous Italian Count Emilio Ponticelli Alberto Sordi, whose test flights wreck one aircraft after another and the amorous Frenchman Pierre Dubois JeanPierre Cassel. Yujiro Ishihara is the latearriving Japanese naval officer Yamamoto, with a perfect dubbed Etonian accent.The rivalries between their respective nations degenerate into a ridiculous hotair balloon duel between the German and French fliers, and the nefarious actions of baronet Sir Percy WareArmitage TerryThomas, an unscrupulous British flier who never leaves anything to chance. With his bullied servant, Courtney Eric Sykes, he sabotages two aircraft, drugs one pilot, and cheats by shipping his aeroplane across the channel at night. More complications occur when the rugged American cowboy Orvil Newton Stuart Whitman falls for Patricia, forming a love triangle with her and Mays. ........

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