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  • Actors: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley
  • Directors: Ken Annakin
  • Format: PAL, Colour, Widescreen, Subtitled
  • Language English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English, French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Sep 2006
  • Run Time: 132 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000CD1GPS
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,615 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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4.0 out of 5 stars They go up tiddily up up up, they go down, diddily down down..., 11 Jan 2009
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Set around a fictional 1910 London to Paris air race and the rivalries of the pioneer aviators it attracts from all around the world to risk life, limb and some dodgy back-projection in the Paris sequences, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew From London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes began life as a project on pilots Alcock and Brown for Alexander Korda. Director Annakin had already reconstructed many of the vintage aircraft before the producer's death took the project with him.

As with The Longest Day, the story provided 20th Century Fox with a great opportunity to increase its foreign box-office prospects by populating the film with popular actors from around the world, while its episodic structure and the sheer size of the cast meant that many could film their parts in a matter of days, keeping the budget manageable. As a result, many are so brief that blink-and-you'll-miss-them (Red Skelton, Tony Hancock, Benny Hill).

If it is typical of the international co-productions that were to follow it, it is atypical in that it is also quite funny and highly entertaining. This despite studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck wanting to play down the comic aspects of the film, cutting many early scenes from the script and the rough-cut and building up the rather lukewarm romantic triangle with Stuart Whitman and James Fox fighting over Sarah Miles.

The colour in the casting is definitely on the sidelines. Gert Frobe is memorable as the pompous Prussian learning to fly "from ze book of instructions," as is the briefly seen Tony Hancock as a less than successful inventor whose real-life plaster cast on his broken foot was written into the script to provide one of the film's biggest laughs. But, despite the large ensemble, the undisputed star of the show is easily Terry Thomas at his most caddish as the archetypal cheat and rotter Sir Percy Ware Armitage, making a great double act with Eric Sykes as his put-upon chauffeur that was surely the inspiration for Dastardly and Muttley.

Ron Goodwin's catchy score and Ronald Serle's cartoons catch the mood perfectly, and the planes - built to original specifications - are quite wonderful to watch while the spoilsports among you will have fun looking out for the modern cars (such as the Land Rover clearly visible about an hour into the film) and the Sixties ferries in the Dover and Calais sequences.

Unfortunately, like many Fox Classics titles, the UK PAL DVD is extras-lite - the NTSC version has a much better collection.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great value family entertainment, 17 May 2008
I've waited for years for this film to come out on DVD and now that I've bought it can happily say it was worth the wait in gold! it is an airborne version of the Wacky Races and must have surely inspired this entire genre.

The film is packed with character actors from 50s and 60s including inimitable and much missed greats such as Terry Thomas, Robert Morley, Eric Sykes, Benny Hill and Gert Frobe. They all clearly had fun making it which means there are plenty of laughs.

What is extraordinary is that the film was made long before the clever special effects we take for granted today, so many of the stunts and flying sequences are real and breathtaking. The film is chock full of classic scenes like the hot air balloon duel and the plane landing on the train.

I would be lying if i said it wasn't a bit dated, and its rampant pro-Britishness is a bit toe-curling at times, but on balance, it is a fine piece of entertainment and the kind of movie that is all too rare these days: one that the whole family can sit down in front of and enjoy together.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, 3 Mar 2009
By G. Colville (Hertford, England) - See all my reviews
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I remember seeing this film many years ago in the cinema and I enjoyed it just as much seeing it again on DVD. They don't make films like this anymore!
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I've waited years for this film to come out as a DVD having first seen it in 1966 (England actually won something that year at some sport or other). Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars a classic
british comedy making fun of our european and world parteners with normal stereo types. and benny hill.its a laugh almost non offensive even got the intermission on the dvd. Read more
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