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High Flight is a British film of genre Drama directed by John Gilling released in USA on 1 april 1958 with Ray Milland
High Flight (1957)
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Add to a movie listHigh Flight is a CinemaScope 1957 British cold war drama film in Technicolor, directed by John Gilling and featuring Ray Milland, Bernard Lee and Leslie Phillips. High Flight was filmed with the co-operation of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The title of the film was derived from the poem of the same name by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., an American aviator who flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and lost his life in 1941 over RAF Cranwell, where much of the film was shot.
Synopsis
A group of flight cadets arrive at RAF Cranwell to begin a three-year training course to become RAF pilots. Amongst the group is Tony Winchester (Kenneth Haigh) who makes a memorable entrance by landing his civilian Taylorcraft Auster aircraft with his girlfriend (Anne Aubrey) aboard on the RAF runway just ahead of a de Havilland Vampire jet trainer piloted by Wing Commander Rudge (Ray Milland).Actors
Ray Milland
(Wing Commander Rudge)
Kenneth Haigh
(Anthony 'Tony' Winchester)
Anthony Newley
(Roger Endicott)
Bernard Lee
(Flight Sergeant Harris)
Helen Cherry
(Louise Dawson)
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