An amusing and attractive film being competently directed by Ken Annakin with great cast, such as: Stuart Withman , Sarah Miles , Get Frobe , Terry Thomas , Red Skelton, Irene Demick, among others. European co-production with all-star-cast, funny sequences , spectacular aerial races and amusement. Set circa 1910- an era of early airplanes (in fact the aircrafts used in this movie were replicas built using the authentic materials of the originals, but with slightly more powerful engines) in which the aviation career was in its starts. Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley), owner of the Daily Post newspaper, organizes a London, England to Paris, France flying race in order to boost circulation and show Britain's superiority. The publisher hopes to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, but he must contend with two entrants (Stuart Whitman, James Fox) vying for his daughter (Sarah Miles). As daring young men take part in the dangerous, adventurous race. Contestants come from all over the world from Norway , Italy , America and other countries . Things are complicated by shenanigans, hijinks , double-crosses , honor, and love at first sight ; all of them are founded along the route . With a motley and misfit group of outlandish characters: dastardly villain (Terry Thomas), the typical stiff-upper-lip German officer (Gert Frobe), an American hero (Stuart Whitman), a downtrodden manservant (Eric Sykes), a British gentleman (James Fox) are among the competitors. Meanwhile, the usual villain (Terry-Thomas) carries out cheatings and has sabotaged planes that start coming apart here, there and everywhere . Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes. 20th Century-Fox Presents The Motion Picture That Sets Comedy Ahead 100 Years!
Plane race in an uproarious European tour completed with crashes, strange inventions, as well as national rivalries and cheating. These spectacular old planes race provides the most side-splitting moments in a picture whose greatest assets are the animated Ronald Searle cartoons and the beginning and ending. Benny Hill and Alberto Sordi have various fun moments, along with sympathetic final appearance from Red Skelton, while Gert Frobe and Terry Thomas are greats as astute villains. There's rather too much romance between Stuart Whitman and Sarah Miles, as well as between Jean-Pierre Cassel and Irene Demick. Special mention for Terry Thomas again in dastardly form as a British nasty who plans to sabotage all his rivals. This¨Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes¨forms a dypyic with ¨Montecarlo or bust¨, both had the same director (Ken Annakin), writers (Jack Davies and Annakin), composer (Ron Goodwin), and five actors. Terry-Thomas played the son of his character in the earlier movie, and Eric Sykes' character was again an employee of Terry-Thomas'. Gert Fröbe, William Rushton, and Michael Trubshawe played unrelated roles. It displays lively and jolly musical score by Ron Goodwin and catching theme song. Colorful and evocative cinematography by Christopher Challis.
¨Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris (1965) belongs to a trilogy in which old machines such as cars and planes participate into spectacular races across Europe : the first was ¨The great race¨ by Blake Edwards with Tony Curtis , Natalie Wood , Ross Martin , Arthur O'Connell ; the second was ¨Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes¨ (1965) in which a wealthy newspaper publisher is persuaded to sponsor an air race from London a Paris . And followed by ¨Montecarlo or bust¨ as the US title would indicate this is a sort of sequel to ¨Those magnificent men in their flying machines¨ (1965) dealing with an international car rally, circa 1920, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars, a noise slow cars trek 1500 miles across nation in the twenties race.
This motion pictue was professionally directed by Ken Annakin , though being very funny and overly long. Ken was an expert on Adventure genre as ¨The new adventures of Pippi Longstockings¨, ¨Pirate movie¨ , ¨Paper tiger¨, ¨The fifth Musketeer¨ , ¨Call of wild¨, ¨The Swiss family Robinson¨, ¨Land of fury¨, ¨The Sword and the Rose¨, ¨The story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men¨, ¨Third man on the mountain¨ and Wartime genre as ¨Battle of the Bulge¨, and ¨The Longest day¨. Rating: 7.5/10. Better than average.
Plane race in an uproarious European tour completed with crashes, strange inventions, as well as national rivalries and cheating. These spectacular old planes race provides the most side-splitting moments in a picture whose greatest assets are the animated Ronald Searle cartoons and the beginning and ending. Benny Hill and Alberto Sordi have various fun moments, along with sympathetic final appearance from Red Skelton, while Gert Frobe and Terry Thomas are greats as astute villains. There's rather too much romance between Stuart Whitman and Sarah Miles, as well as between Jean-Pierre Cassel and Irene Demick. Special mention for Terry Thomas again in dastardly form as a British nasty who plans to sabotage all his rivals. This¨Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes¨forms a dypyic with ¨Montecarlo or bust¨, both had the same director (Ken Annakin), writers (Jack Davies and Annakin), composer (Ron Goodwin), and five actors. Terry-Thomas played the son of his character in the earlier movie, and Eric Sykes' character was again an employee of Terry-Thomas'. Gert Fröbe, William Rushton, and Michael Trubshawe played unrelated roles. It displays lively and jolly musical score by Ron Goodwin and catching theme song. Colorful and evocative cinematography by Christopher Challis.
¨Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris (1965) belongs to a trilogy in which old machines such as cars and planes participate into spectacular races across Europe : the first was ¨The great race¨ by Blake Edwards with Tony Curtis , Natalie Wood , Ross Martin , Arthur O'Connell ; the second was ¨Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes¨ (1965) in which a wealthy newspaper publisher is persuaded to sponsor an air race from London a Paris . And followed by ¨Montecarlo or bust¨ as the US title would indicate this is a sort of sequel to ¨Those magnificent men in their flying machines¨ (1965) dealing with an international car rally, circa 1920, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars, a noise slow cars trek 1500 miles across nation in the twenties race.
This motion pictue was professionally directed by Ken Annakin , though being very funny and overly long. Ken was an expert on Adventure genre as ¨The new adventures of Pippi Longstockings¨, ¨Pirate movie¨ , ¨Paper tiger¨, ¨The fifth Musketeer¨ , ¨Call of wild¨, ¨The Swiss family Robinson¨, ¨Land of fury¨, ¨The Sword and the Rose¨, ¨The story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men¨, ¨Third man on the mountain¨ and Wartime genre as ¨Battle of the Bulge¨, and ¨The Longest day¨. Rating: 7.5/10. Better than average.