With documentary-like detail, this film traces the progress of three young recruits at an RAF training college in Lincolnshire.
One of them, Tony Winchester (Kenneth Haigh) stands out immediately as a cocky individualist. But the superior officer, Rudge (Ray Milland), is reluctant to impose his usual iron discipline because the youth’s father – a wartime Wing Commander – was killed through Rudge’s own rebelliousness as a young man.
High Flight was filmed and released in Technicolor in Britain but only released in black and white in the US.
Wing Commander Rudge
Ray Milland Flight Sergeant Harris
Bernard Lee Tony Winchester
Kenneth Haigh Roger Endicott
Anthony Newley John Fletcher
Kenneth Fortescue Cadet Day
Sean Kelly Louise
Helen Cherry Squadron Leader Blake
Leslie Phillips Minister for Air
Kynaston Reeves Commandant
John Le Mesurier Diana
Jan Brooks Jackie
Jan Holden Chauffeur
Richard Wattis Colonel
Charles Clay Parker
Frank Atkinson Bishop
Ian Fleming Bishop’s Wife
Nancy Nevinson Commandant’s Wife
Grace Arnold Susan
Anne Aubrey Cadet Pringle
John Downing Cadet Phillips
Richard Bennett Cadet Wilcox
Barry Foster Cadet Benson
Peter Dixon Cadet Johnson
Robert Raikes Cadet Seymour
Douglas Gibbon Cadet Connor
Alan Penn
