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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

Director(s) Ken Annakin
Producer(s) Stan Margulies
Top Genres Action, Adventure, Comedy
Top Topics Aviation
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) was a Adventure - Comedy Film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Stan Margulies.

Academy Awards 1965 --- Ceremony Number 38 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingJack Davies, Ken AnnakinNominated
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

By Beatrice on Dec 5, 2018 From Flickers in Time

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes Directed by Ken Annakin Written by Jack Davies and Ken Annakin 1965/UK Twentieth Century-Fox Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Another of the epic comedy adventures spawned by Around th... Read full article

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Quotes:

Count Emilio Ponticelli: It is a pity that the race will now be won by a Protestant.
Mother Superior: A Protestant? Sisters, don't stand there gazing. This good Catholic needs our help!
Lord Rawnsley: The trouble with these international affairs is they attract foreigners.
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: And I've arranged for the Frenchman to be detained by a lovely young lady.
Courtney: Ho, ho, guvnor, I'll bet she's a bit of all right.
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: You should know, Courtney, she's your daughter.
Courtney: But guvnor, she's an innocent young girl!
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: Not IS, Courtney, WAS!
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Facts
Two of the replicas (the "1910 Bristol Boxkite" and the "1911 Roe IV Triplane") built for the film still fly across the English countryside as both are preserved in the "Shuttleworth Collection" based at Old Warden, Bedfordshire.
Stuart Whitman's character Orvil Newton is possibly named after inventor Orville Wright who helped build the first airplane and scientist Sir Isaac Newton who made discoveries regarding gravity.
Director and co-writer Ken Annakin had been working on an adventure film about transatlantic flight, when the producer's bankrutpcy aborted the production. He then made this film.
The French entry in the race, flown by the character Pierre Dubois, is a replica of the "Demoiselle", designed by the Brazilian expatriate Alberto Santos-Dumont, who had been believed by the French to be the first to fly a powered aircraft, until Wilbur Wright & Orville Wright's demonstrations in 1908. The replica builders were faithful in constructing the Demoiselle, but no one could get it to leave the ground until it was discovered that Dumont had been a very small man who weighed only 85 pounds. A female pilot was hired. She successfully flew the plane throughout the filming.
First full length feature film of Vernon Dobtcheff.
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