High Flight 1957 movie

Just nabbed a used DVD off ebay.. they’re out there if you look for them :eagerness:

My Flight Commander when I was a Cranwell cadet in 1968 boasted that as a Flight Cadet himself, HE was in “High Flight” as a star when it was filmed in the Fifties.
(actually his boots were ,marching up and down in one of the parade square sequences )

Hi everyone

Apologies for my late reply
A huge thanks to all of you for this great information regarding the movie.
Best wishes
James

Anyone notice that one of the producers was Mr. 007, Cubby Broccoli?

Regards
John

The Vampires depicted in the film was Cranwell’s own aerobatic team led by Flt Lt Colin Bidie. The Hunters were from No.43 Squadron’s ‘Fighting Cocks’ aerobatic team led by ‘A’ Flt Commander, Flt Lt Pete Bairsto, while the ‘ground accident’ was at RAF Chivenor. Btw, the Hunter flying sequences were made in October 1956 with a modified aircraft fitted with forward-facing Cinemascope camera in the nose, and also a two-seat Hunter

Quite a good film, if you ignore the continunity errors.

Switching between single and two-seat Vampires during the bad weather sequence.

43 Squadron Hunters initially becoming 1 Squadron ones during taxying and mass take-off sequence.

Belly landed Hunter shown as having both main undercarriage legs down as pilot loadedi nto the ambulance.

Yes it was full of stereotypes, but at least the aircraft were real, not CGI or models.

Love the poster – what a magnificently cheesy strapline!

Adrian

Watch it right now on You Tube folks 🙂

https://youtu.be/8l4byhJVA8o

James,

If you have satellite, It’s often shown on TCM.

I think it was either last year or the year before that they were showing it on a regular basis, so it might well crop up again.

I note it’s available on DVD from these sites: –

http://www.oldrarefilms.com/high-flight-1957-dvd—ray-milland–bernard-lee-194-p.asp

http://www.narkoverselusivefilms.com/british-films-1950-19602/?Page_ID=3610&refpid=7649&id=29252

You might well find some copies on ebay as well.

Cheers

Paul

Hi Mark

Oh really that’s a great bit of information

Thanks for that
James

As an aside. In 2015 the mystery Spitfire in the ‘Museum’ scene was finally identified as Mk 22 PK624.

Mark