Ships with Wings
Ships with Wings
Release: 1941-11-10
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 4.0
War
Drama
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Ealing Studios
Cast
John Clements
as Lt. Dick Stacey
Michael Wilding
as Lieut. Grant
John Stuart
as Commdr. Hood
Frank Cellier
as Gen. Scarappa
Clive Baxter
as Boy
Ian Fleming
as Colonel
Leslie Banks
as Vice Adm. David Wetherby
Basil Sydney
as Capt. Fairfax
Hugh Williams
as Wagner
Cecil Parker
as German Air Marshal
Charles Victor
as MacDermott
Betty Marsden
as Jean
Morland Graham
as C.P.O.Marsden
Jane Baxter
as Celia Wetherby
Ann Todd
as Kay Gordon
Frank Pettingell
as Fields
Michael Rennie
as Lieut. Maxwell
George Merritt
as Surgeon Comdr.
John Laurie
as Lt.Comdr. Reid
Edward Chapman
as Papadopoulos
Hugh Burden
as Sub.Lt. Weatherby