Spectacular flying sequences, heart-rending emotions and a rousing musical score combine to make 633 squadron one of the great R.A.F classics.
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AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1984)
Certification15 Our Rating
A little Reaganite romance about a dashing fighter pilot and a simple girl from the town. It's tough trying to make it at pilot training school, but then Richi is just so hunky....
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ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939)
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Set in South America, Grant leads a superb cast as the tough boss of an Andean air-freight service. Hayworth and Arthur are two girls competing for his affections, while he has to make sure that his shoestring outfit get the mail through on time. Well directed with plenty of wit. A true classic!
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REACH FOR THE SKY (1956)
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Douglas Bader was the archetypal British Bulldog hero, an ace cricketeer and rugby fly-half, who tragically lost his legs in a flying accident, but went on to be a top Spitfire flyer and later one of the most renowned escapees from Colditz. This is his story, a stirring tribute to an inspirational figure from British history.
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THE DAMBUSTERS (1955)
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Lots of stiff upper lip and Brit grit in this heroic true story of how Lancaster bombers, carrying Dr Barnes Wallis's Bouncing Bomb, destroyed the dams on the Rhur, damaging German industrial production and the Nazi war effort.
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THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (1965)
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When a group of disparate characters crash in the merciless desert of the Sahara, it would seem their fate is sealed, but not all of them are so willing to offer up their life to the sands, and so begins a race against time to create from the wreckage a means of escape. Flight of The Phoenix is a classic example of the "they don't make them like that anymore", part boys own adventure, part astute study of human nature in the face of adversity, a gripping story intelligently adapted from Elleston
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THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES (1965)
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Set in 1910, this rip-roaring comedy is a 'Wacky-Races' in the air. In a quest to prove that Great Britain is top dog in the air, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) puts up a £10,000 prize. Many stereotypical nationals take part (there's a fanatical Prussian determined to win at all costs), a sextet of women, villains and good guys. Featuring plenty of slapstick and filmed in that wonderful technicolor. A great Sunday afternoon film.
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WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (1960)
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece.
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