One of Our Aircraft is Missing
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| One of Our Aircraft is Missing | |
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 One of Our Aircraft is Missing Video Cover |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Produced by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Written by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Starring | Godfrey Tearle Eric Portman Hugh Williams Bernard Miles Pamela Brown Googie Withers Peter Ustinov |
| Cinematography | Ronald Neame |
| Editing by | David Lean |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors |
| Release date(s) | June 27, 1942 UK |
| Running time | 102 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £70,000 (estimated) |
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One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) is the fourth collaboration between the British writer-director-producer team of Powell and Pressburger and the first film they made under the banner of The Archers.
The movie received two Academy Award nominations, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, and Ronald Neame and C.C. Stevens for Best Effects, Special Effects.
The title is taken from a phrase often heard in news reports after a bombing raid, "one of our aircraft failed to return", altered to a less-downbeat form.
Much of the outdoor sequences set in the Netherlands were shot at Boston in Lincolnshire, with many of the town's landmarks visible, for example Shodfriars Quay and the railroad Swing Bridge.
Notably, there is no scored music, only natural sounds that would be heard by the characters.
[edit] Synopsis
An RAF bomber crew is forced to bail out over the Netherlands. The film tells the story of how the Dutch help the crew despite the dangers. A reversal of the plot in their previous film, Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941), here it is the British trying to escape.
[edit] External links
- One of our Aircraft... reviews and articles at the Powell & Pressburger Pages
- One of our Aircraft... at the Internet Movie Database
- One of Our Aircraft is Missing at the BFI's Screenonline. Full synopsis and film stills (and clips viewable from UK libraries).
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Powell and Pressburger The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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| 1930s | The Spy in Black | The Lion Has Wings |
| 1940s | Contraband | An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Forty-Ninth Parallel | One of Our Aircraft is Missing | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | The Volunteer | A Canterbury Tale | I Know Where I'm Going! | A Matter of Life and Death | Black Narcissus | The Red Shoes | The Small Back Room |
| 1950s | The Elusive Pimpernel | Gone to Earth | The Tales of Hoffmann | Oh... Rosalinda!! | The Battle of the River Plate | Ill Met by Moonlight |
| 1960s | Peeping Tom (not Pressburger) | They're a Weird Mob | Age of Consent |
| 1970s | The Boy Who Turned Yellow |
