Underplayed Gems

High Flight (1957)

High Flight poster
Directed by
John Gilling
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

At a Cold War-era Royal Air Force training base, an experienced but strict instructor clashes with a cocky young cadet. The film follows their relationship as the cadet learns the discipline of flying military jets.

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What happens

High Flight is a 1957 CinemaScope British Cold War film, directed by John Gilling and starring Ray Milland, Bernard Lee and Leslie Phillips. The title of the film was derived from the 1941 poem of the same title by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr., an Anglo-American aviator who flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and lost his life in 1941 over RAF Cranwell, where much of the film was shot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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