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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

6.8 138 mins Comedy   1965
20th Century Fox  
Director(s): Ken Annakin

Release Date: 16 Wed, Jun 1965

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

Casts of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

Stuart Whitman

as Orvil Newton

Sarah Miles

as Patricia Rawnsley

James Fox

as Richard Mays

Alberto Sordi

as Count Emilio Ponticelli

Robert Morley

as Lord Rawnsley

Gert Fröbe

as Colonel Manfred von Holstein

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Pierre Dubois

Eric Sykes

as Courtney

Red Skelton

as The Neanderthal Man

Terry-Thomas

as Sir Percy Ware-Armitage

Flora Robson

as Mother Superior

Karl Michael Vogler

as Captain Rumpelstoss

Sam Wanamaker

as George Gruber

Maurice Denham

as Trawler Skipper

Gordon Jackson

as MacDougal

John Le Mesurier

as French Painter

Ferdy Mayne

as French Official

Benny Hill

as Fire Chief Perkins

Millicent Martin

as Airline Hostess

Tony Hancock

as Harry Popperwell

Yūjirō Ishihara

as Yamamoto

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Member of the French Team

Zena Marshall

as Countess Sophia Ponticelli

Irina Demick

as Brigitte / Ingrid / Marlene / Françoise / Yvette / Betty

Cicely Courtneidge

as Colonel's Wife

Eric Barker

as French Postman

Fred Emney

as Colonel on Road

Davy Kaye

as Jean Pascal

Jeremy Lloyd

as Lieutenant Parsons

Eric Pohlmann

as Italian Mayor

Marjorie Rhodes

as Waitress

Norman Rossington

as Assistant Fire Chief

William Rushton

as Tremayne Gascoyne

Graham Stark

as Fireman

Jimmy Thompson

as Photographer

Maurice Dunster

as French Policeman (uncredited)

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