This extraordinary comic version of the historic 1910 London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane race across the English Channel, offering 10,000 pounds to the winner.... The escapades between the American, British, French, German, Italian and Japanese teams result in the most daring and hilarious in-flight acrobatic stunts ever caught on film!
Directed by
Ken Annakin
Written by
Ken Annakin (written by); Jack Davies (written by).
Starring
Stuart Whitman (Orvil Newton); Sarah Miles (Patricia Rawnsley); James Fox (Richard Mays); Alberto Sordi (Count Emilio Ponticelli); Robert Morley (Lord Rawnsley); Gert Fröbe (Colonel Manfred von Holstein (as Gert Frobe)); Jean-Pierre Cassel (Pierre Dubois); Irina Demick (Brigitte / Ingrid / Marlene / Françoise / Yvette / Betty); Eric Sykes (Courtney); Red Skelton (Neanderthal Man); Terry-Thomas (Sir Percy Ware-Armitage); Benny Hill (Fire Chief Perkins); Yûjirô Ishihara (Yamamoto (as Yujiro Ishihara)); Flora Robson (Mother Superior); Karl Michael Vogler (Captain Rumpelstoss). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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