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    Jet Storm (1959)

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    Cy Endfield’s proto-typical airborne disaster movie revolves around a threat to blow up a London to New York-bound flight from one of the passengers aboard, Ernest Tilley (Richard Attenborough).

    Attenborough’s performance as this man-on-the-edge is every bit as memorable as his more celebrated roles.

    Mentally shattered by the death of his young daughter at the hands of an uncharged drunk driver (who Tilley knows is on the flight), Attenborough’s character is fuelled by a grief-stricken desire for revenge.

    The late actor’s essaying of Tilley’s descent into and return from emotional hell is the high point of Endfield’s enjoyable, if contrived, thriller.

    The excellent cast also features Stanley Baker, Diane Cilento, Hermione Baddeley, David Kossoff, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Harry Secombe and Mai Zetterling.

    Any picture that boasts 50s rocker Marty Wilde helping to save an aeroplane from mad bomber Richard Attenborough has to be worth watching!

    Ernest Tilley
    Richard Attenborough
    Captain Bardow
    Stanley Baker
    Mrs Satterly
    Hermione Baddeley
    Otis Randolf
    Bernard Braden
    Angelica Como
    Diane Cilento
    Edwina Randolf
    Barbara Kelly
    Dr Bergstein
    David Kossoff
    Pam Leyton
    Virginia Maskell
    Binky Meadows
    Harry Secombe
    Inez Barrington
    Elizabeth Sellars
    Emma Morgan
    Dame Sybil Thorndike
    Carol Tilley
    Mai Zetterling
    Billy Forrester
    Marty Wilde
    Mulliner
    Patrick Allen
    George Towers
    Paul Carpenter

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    Cy Endfield

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