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Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines. Image shows left to right: Sir Percy Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas), Courtney (Eric Sykes). Credit: 20th Century Fox
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

  • 1965 film

Period comedy. Newspaper publisher Lord Rawnsley establishes a London-to-Paris flying challenge with a huge cash prize. Stars Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley and more.

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Press clippings

Terry-Thomas is as splendid as ever in this cheery award-winning comedy set in the early days of air travel. A big reward is on offer to the winner of an air race from London to Paris; Terry-Thomas's dastardly Sir Percival Ware-Armitage is among the pilots trying to prove they are "number one in the air".

Michael Deacon, The Telegraph, 22nd January 2013

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