10 greatest flying movies
This is a personal list, and as such, won't please everyone. I accept that, but I wanted to look at the films that have best represented flying for me over the years.
I've also excluded helicopters in exchange for a festival of fixed wings. But as a person who loves aircraft and flying of all kinds, these are the ones that made me feel the need. The need for speed...
Gosh, what a place to start. For the most part, the film's an historically accurate retelling of the ultimate daring-do of WWII. Richard Todd plays the unflappable Guy Gibson, who lead the amazing 617 Squadron on their secret mission against the dams of the Ruhr valley.
Using the Barnes Wallis (played by Michael Redgrave) utterly inspired bouncing bomb, they must penetrate Germany's air defence network, attack impregnable targets, and try to come back alive.
The attack has since been the inspiration for a dozen or more other fictional movies, not least the attack on the Death Star at the end of A New Hope is intertwined with some love/hate/tragedy elements to create more of a narrative structure. Granted, the back projection work in the cockpits is horrible, but some of the real flying makes up for it in spades.
The de Havilland Mosquito is, by far, the coolest aircraft of WWII, and when I saw this as a child I'd have sold my very soul to have flown one.
As with most war movies of the era, it also has a very memorable theme, created by the legendary Ron Goodwin.
It has the line "Blue Leader to all sections. Enemy anti-aircraft intact. Keep your eyes open. We're going in." I wonder where that got repeated almost verbatim?
I'm talking here about the original version, and not the poor remake. I accept that it only has flying at the start and the very end, but the story of a very unlikely group of individuals marooned in the desert, and their scheme to escape is wonderfully told.
The cast onboard is to die for, with probably the best selection of English-speaking actors you could possibly assemble. The pivotal scene is the one where it's revealed that Heinrich Dorfmann (the fantastic Hardy Krüger) only designs model aircraft, when he's got them to build a full size plane based on their assumptions of his expertise with real aircraft. It's pure cinema magic.
A famous stunt pilot, Paul Mantz, was killed flying low trying to simulate a takeoff in the 'Phoenix', which is a rather sad epitaph to a marvellously crafted movie with some gripping performances.
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