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Flying Fortress (1942)
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5 December 1942 (USA)
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Blazing from the screen... out of the Blazing skies! more
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The plane is the strongest character
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Richard Greene | ... | James 'Jim Spence Jr. |
| Carla Lehmann | ... | Sydney Kelly, reporter for Manhattan News Service |
| Betty Stockfeld | ... | Lady DeBorah 'Debbie' Ottershaw (as Betty Stockfield) |
| Donald Stewart | ... | Mr. William 'Sky' Kelly |
| Basil Radford | ... | Captain Wilkinson |
| Charles Heslop | ... | Herrington, Spence's butler |
| Sidney King | ... | Lord 'Squeakum' Ottershaw |
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USA:68 min | UK:109 min
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Mono (RCA Sound)
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The heroic engine repair shown in the movie was based on an actual event. A Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot, Sergeant James Allen Ward, earned the Victoria Cross after he climbed onto the wing of his airplane on 7 July 1941 to smother the burning engine.
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This movie is a mixture of the B-17 Flying Fortress, an inane class struggle, and superficial love interests. The are some exceptional scenes of the damage caused during the first London blitz of World War Two, yet little more of interest. The real star of the film is the B-17, with a typical bombing raid over Berlin, a propaganda target for 1942. It is an interesting docudrama of the early B-17's use during the war, so early that the navigator uses celestial fixes. Don't bail out on this movie without seeing it first.