Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
by Ken Annakin
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Actor: Alberto Sordi, James Fox, Robert Morley, Sarah Miles, Stuart WhitmanDirector: Ken Annakin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.20:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
DVD Review: Flying Machines
Summary: 5 Stars
This tapestry is woven around some early flying machines and I think it is MAGNIFICENT.
If you love flying and you enjoy a tale that has some history woven in here and there, you will love this DVD. It is one of those that can be watched again without boredom.
DVD Review: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Summary: 3 Stars
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
A great period movie for the aviation enthusiast. Excellent replica and original aircraft that actually do the flying. A good laugh as well as it pokes fun at everyone. One of my favorites!
DVD Review: Up, Up, and Away!
Summary: 4 Stars
The earliest days of heavier-than-air aviation were romantic indeed, with the aviators of the time being the cultural equivalent of today's astronauts. In that context, an air race is organized from England across the English Channel for a variety of airplanes, in order to see which designs would advance the art of flying.
Invitations to the race are sent worldwide, and entrants from many countries bring their airplanes to the starting field, and al,l practice before the race is scheduled. Of course, each entrant's hangar and vicinity reflects the entrant's country, and the cultural differences make a fine contrast. However, what's interesting is that while the culturres are contrasted, nothing is done maliciously.
The film was shot before GCI, and many of the old planes actually were airworthy. There are numerous views of colorful models of early airplanes in flight.
But this is a comedy, so many of the situations are humorous, but the humor is gentle, provoking chuckles rather than belly laughs. Once the race actually starts, the difficulties that some of the contesnders face are believable, but humorous.
The very end of the film is not as effective as when the film was first released, but that shouldn't affect the film's basic story. It's a film that can ve viewed by the whole family, but it's not the standard "family film." Just a lot of fun.
DVD Review: Many years had passed under the bridge...
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this movie because nostalgia. The last time i saw it I was a little boy..The movie is ok. The same I remember.DVD Review: Thoose Magnificent men and their flying machines
Summary: 5 Stars
A magnificent movie,very funny,creative, and extremely accurate, have this movie on tape but had to have a C.D. version, so that I could record the music which does not work, looking for a music disc of the same,which I cannot find.
I higly recomend this to all aviation buffs
Larrypaul
Description of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
This extraordinary comic version of the historic 1910 London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane race across the English Channel. Convinced it will give his newspaper worldwide publicity, the publisher offers 10,000 pounds to the winner. The escapades between the American, British, French, German, Italian and Japanese teams result in the most darling and hilarious in-flight acrobatic stunts ever caught on film. But the film's greatest triumph is the amazing re-creation of the vintage airplanes which did the actual flying.An air race from London to Paris provides the premise for this marvelous comedy, which features thrilling aerial photography and some stupefying stunt flying. It's set in 1910, when the (lovingly re-created) airplanes of the period were likelier to sputter and crash than they were to go in a straight line. The international contest requires an international cast, including Stuart Whitman as a cowboy American interested in the ladylove (Sarah Miles) of an English ace (James Fox). Alberto Sordi and Gert Frobe represent the Italian and German nations; Terry-Thomas plans frightful sabotage for race day. From the jaunty opening song and the great opening-credits drawings by Gerald Searle onward, the movie has a pleasingly breezy tone that sits well with the meticulous flying sequences. This is a delightful example of a certain kind of internationally flavored film of the period, somewhat similar to The Great Race, released the same year (1965). --Robert Horton
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