Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin. Based on an original screenplay titled Flying Crazy, the story is set in 1910, when Lord Rawnsley, an English press magnate, offers a prize of £10,000 to the winner of the Daily Post air race from London to Paris, to prove that Britain is "number one in the air".
The film was rated PG by ...
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Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin. Based on an original screenplay titled Flying Crazy, the story is set in 1910, when Lord Rawnsley, an English press magnate, offers a prize of £10,000 to the winner of the Daily Post air race from London to Paris, to prove that Britain is "number one in the air".
The film was rated PG by the MPAA.
Although director Ken Annakin was not an aviator, he had always been interested in aviation from his early years when pioneering aviator Sir Alan Cobham had given him a first flight in a biplane. Along with co-writer Jack Davies, Annakin had been working on an adventure film about transatlantic flights, when the producer's bankruptcy aborted the production. Fresh from his role as director of the British exterior segments in The Longest Day (1962), Annakin pitched the idea of recreating an actual event from the dawn of aviation to...
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