Ships with Wings
1941-11-10 | 103 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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John ClementsLt. Dick Stacey
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Leslie BanksVice Adm. David Wetherby
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Jane BaxterCelia Wetherby
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Ann ToddKay Gordon
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Basil SydneyCapt. Fairfax
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Edward ChapmanPapadopoulos
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Hugh WilliamsWagner
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Frank PettingellFields
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Michael WildingLieut. Grant
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Michael RennieLieut. Maxwell
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Cecil ParkerGerman Air Marshal
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John StuartCommdr. Hood
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Frank CellierGen. Scarappa
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Morland GrahamC.P.O.Marsden
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Charles VictorMacDermott
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Hugh BurdenSub.Lt. Weatherby
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Betty MarsdenJean
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George MerrittSurgeon Comdr.
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John LaurieLt.Comdr. Reid
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Hurricane
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Max
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Waiting for Anya
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