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    Iron Maiden, The (1962)

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    The American millionaire owner of TransGlobal Airlines, Paul Fisher (future Gilligan’s Island star Alan Hale Jr.) travels to England with his family to consider buying a new British-made supersonic passenger plane.

    The deal is put at risk when his daughter, Kathy (Anne Helm) and the plane’s designer, Jack Hopkins (Michael Craig), crash into each other in a quiet English country lane. The two take an instant dislike to each other, each blaming the other for the accident.

    A series of mishaps ensue – including Kathy damaging Jack’s vintage 18-ton traction engine The Iron Maiden, and his fireman, Fred (Sam Kydd), breaking a leg – which look set to prevent Jack from entering the annual National Traction Engine Championship at Woburn Abbey.

    When all seems lost, the millionaire himself is won over by Jack’s plight and joins him in driving the engine, with the two soon becoming firm friends.

    It’s a delightfully British comedy from Carry On director Gerald Thomas with music from Eric Rogers and superb shots of England in 1962. The English countryside in summer has never looked better.

    The aircraft featured in the film is a Handley Page Victor, one of the RAF’s subsonic nuclear V-Bombers. The scenes with the Victor were filmed at Radlett Aerodrome in Hertfordshire.

    Released in some markets as The Swingin’ Maiden.

    Jack Hopkins
    Michael Craig
    Kathy Fisher
    Anne Helm
    Miriam Fisher
    Jeff Donnell
    Paul Fisher
    Alan Hale Jr.
    Admiral Sir Digby Trevelyan
    Noel Purcell
    Sir Giles Thompson
    Cecil Parker
    Lord Upshott
    Roland Culver
    Nellie Carter
    Joan Sims
    Humphrey Gore-Brown
    John Standing
    Vicar
    Brian Oulton
    Fred Carter
    Sam Kydd
    Mrs Webb
    Judith Furse
    Mrs Webb’s Teammate
    Cyril Chamberlain
    Harry Markham
    Richard Thorp
    Bill
    Jim Dale
    Mr Ludge
    George Woodbridge
    Sidney Webb
    Ian Wilson
    Albert the village Constable
    Brian Rawlinson
    Charlie
    Douglas Ives
    Senior Rally Steward
    Michael Nightingale
    Rally Commentator
    Raymond Glendenning
    Concierge
    Anton Rodgers
    Fred’s Son
    Jonathan Kydd

    Director
    Gerald Thomas

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