Ships with Wings

Ships with Wings

103 mins | Drama, War | Nov. 10, 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.

Ships with Wings

103 mins | Drama, War | Nov. 10, 1941

Ships with Wings
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.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Ealing Studios
Original title Ships with Wings
Directors Sergei Nolbandov
Writers Sergei Nolbandov, Austin Melford, Patrick Kirwan, Diana Morgan

Cast

John Clements

as Lt. Dick Stacey

Leslie Banks

as Vice Adm. David Wetherby

Jane Baxter

as Celia Wetherby

Ann Todd

as Kay Gordon

Basil Sydney

as Capt. Fairfax

Edward Chapman

as Papadopoulos

Hugh Williams

as Wagner

Frank Pettingell

as Fields

Michael Wilding

as Lieut. Grant

Michael Rennie

as Lieut. Maxwell

Cecil Parker

as German Air Marshal

John Stuart

as Commdr. Hood

Frank Cellier

as Gen. Scarappa

Morland Graham

as C.P.O.Marsden

Charles Victor

as MacDermott

Hugh Burden

as Sub.Lt. Weatherby

Betty Marsden

as Jean

George Merritt

as Surgeon Comdr.

John Laurie

as Lt.Comdr. Reid

Charles Stuart

as Von Rittau

Clive Baxter

as Boy

Ian Fleming

as Colonel

Graham Penley

as Sailor

Charles Russell

as Sailor

Robert Brooks Turner

as German soldier[scene with Cecil Parker]