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    High Flight (1957)

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    With documentary-like detail, this film traces the progress of three young peacetime recruits at the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell in Lincolnshire.

    One of them, Tony Winchester (Kenneth Haigh) stands out immediately as a cocky individualist when he arrives at the college in his own plane and lands on the main airstrip without permission.

    But the superior officer, Wing Commander Rudge (Ray Milland) – a Battle of Britain veteran – 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.

    Two other newcomers, Roger Endicott (Anthony Newley) and John Fletcher (Kenneth Fortescue) team up with Tony and after completing their training they are posted to a fighter squadron in Scotland where Rudge is still their CO.

    Winchester is still a rebel – until he is posted to Germany. During an operational flight, he sights an unidentified plane and gives chase. In his excitement, he crosses the Iron Curtain and is hit by anti-aircraft fire. And the person who risks his life to save him is Rudge, of course.

    High Flight was filmed (with the cooperation of the Air Ministry) by Warwick Films 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

    Director
    John Gilling

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