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Ships with Wings( 1941)

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Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      John Clements

      Lt. Dick Stacey

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      Leslie Banks

      Vice Adm. David Wetherby

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      Jane Baxter

      Celia Wetherby

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      Ann Todd

      Kay Gordon

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      Basil Sydney

      Capt. Fairfax

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      Edward Chapman

      Papadopoulos

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      Hugh Williams

      Wagner

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      Frank Pettingell

      Fields

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      Michael Wilding

      Lieut. Grant

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      Michael Rennie

      Lieut. Maxwell

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      Cecil Parker

      German Air Marshal

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      John Stuart

      Commdr. Hood

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      Frank Cellier

      Gen. Scarappa

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      Morland Graham

      C.P.O.Marsden

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      Charles Victor

      MacDermott

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      Hugh Burden

      Sub.Lt. Weatherby

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      Betty Marsden

      Jean

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      George Merritt

      Surgeon Comdr.

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      John Laurie

      Lt.Comdr. Reid

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      Charles Stuart

      Von Rittau

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      Clive Baxter

      Boy

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      Ian Fleming

      Colonel

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      Elizabeth Pengally

      Girl

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      Graham Penley

      Sailor

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      Charles Russell

      Sailor

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      Robert Brooks Turner

      German soldier[scene with Cecil Parker]

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      George Spence

      SS Officer (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Sep 18 2025
    After an ill-disciplined mishap while serving with the Royal Navy “Lt. Stacey” (John Clements) is unceremoniously discharged and finds himself engaged as a commercial pilot in Greece. This is all happening just as the Nazis have invaded that country and with pressure mounting on the Allied fleets in the Mediterranean it falls to the sceptical “Adm. Weatherby” (Leslie Banks) to utilise his hitherto unproven Fleet Air Arm to demonstrate just how effective carrier-based air power can be in attacking and defeating heavily armed artillery positions or bombers. The enemy is no pushover, however, and ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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