Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)

Timing: 2:18 (138 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1965-06-16

Country

United Kingdom

Production

20th Century Fox

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$5 600 000

Revenue

$31 111 111

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Director

Ken Annakin

Actors

Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Eric Sykes, Red Skelton, Terry-Thomas
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Scenario

Producer

Stan Margulies

Operator

Christopher Challis

Composer

Ron Goodwin

Artist

Audition

Stuart Lyons

Editing

Anne V. Coates, Gordon Stone
All team (11)

• The film's title can be literally translated as “These Amazing Men and Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes.”
• Twenty full-scale, accurate replicas of 1910s airplanes were specially built for the film, including monoplanes, triplanes and biplanes. Original materials were used to make the models, except for safer engine versions. Six of the twenty models were actually capable of flying.
• The aircraft flown by Pierre Dubois is a copy of the “Demoiselle” aircraft created by Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) from Brazil. He was a pioneer of aviation who proved the possibility of regularly performing controlled flights on airships. The model was created with as much accuracy as possible, but it simply would not take off. No one could figure out what was wrong until it turned out that Dumont himself weighed only 38 and a half kilograms and was a very small man. Then, a contract was concluded with a British female aviator named Joan Hughes (1918-1993), who participated in the filming.
• The aircraft flown by Pierre Dubois is a replica of the "Demoiselle" plane created by Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) from Brazil. He was a pioneer of aviation who proved the possibility of regularly performing controlled flights on airships. The model was created with the utmost accuracy, but it simply wouldn't take off. No one could understand what was wrong until it turned out that Dumont himself weighed only 38 and a half kilograms and was a very small man. They then signed a contract with a British female aviator named Joan Hughes (1918-1993), who participated in the filming.