Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
by Ken Annakin

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
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Actor: Alberto Sordi, James Fox, Robert Morley, Sarah Miles, Stuart Whitman
Director: Ken Annakin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.20:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Movie Review: Flying Machines
Summary: 5 Stars

This tapestry is woven around some early flying machines and I think it is MAGNIFICENT.

If you love flying and you enjoy a tale that has some history woven in here and there, you will love this DVD. It is one of those that can be watched again without boredom.

Summary of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

This extraordinary comic version of the historic 1910 London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane race across the English Channel. Convinced it will give his newspaper worldwide publicity, the publisher offers 10,000 pounds to the winner. The escapades between the American, British, French, German, Italian and Japanese teams result in the most darling and hilarious in-flight acrobatic stunts ever caught on film. But the film's greatest triumph is the amazing re-creation of the vintage airplanes which did the actual flying.
An air race from London to Paris provides the premise for this marvelous comedy, which features thrilling aerial photography and some stupefying stunt flying. It's set in 1910, when the (lovingly re-created) airplanes of the period were likelier to sputter and crash than they were to go in a straight line. The international contest requires an international cast, including Stuart Whitman as a cowboy American interested in the ladylove (Sarah Miles) of an English ace (James Fox). Alberto Sordi and Gert Frobe represent the Italian and German nations; Terry-Thomas plans frightful sabotage for race day. From the jaunty opening song and the great opening-credits drawings by Gerald Searle onward, the movie has a pleasingly breezy tone that sits well with the meticulous flying sequences. This is a delightful example of a certain kind of internationally flavored film of the period, somewhat similar to The Great Race, released the same year (1965). --Robert Horton

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