Ships with Wings
4
103 minutes
11/10/1941
Overview
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 List
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
Elizabeth Pengally
as Girl
Graham Penley
as Sailor
Charles Russell
as Sailor
Robert Brooks Turner
as German soldier[scene with Cecil Parker]
George Spence
as SS Officer (uncredited)