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It's in the Air

5.7 87 mins Comedy   1938
Ealing Studios  
Director(s): Anthony Kimmins

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.

Casts of It's in the Air

George Formby

as George Brown

Polly Ward

as Peggy

Jack Hobbs

as Cpl. Craig

Julien Mitchell

as The Sergeant Major

Garry Marsh

as Commanding Officer Hill

Ilena Sylva

as Anne Brown

Frank Leighton

as Bob Bullock

C. Denier Warren

as Sir Philip

Michael Shepley

as Adjutant

Hal Gordon

as Nobby Clark, mechanic

Joe Cunningham

as Flight Sergeant

Jack Melford

as Lt. Terry, pilot

Eliot Makeham

as Sir Philip's Gardener

Esma Cannon

as Sir Philip's Maid

O.B. Clarence

as Sir Philip's Gardener

Philip Godfrey

as 2nd. Ambulance Man

Bryan Herbert

as RAF Corporal Organising Concert

Philip Ray

as Airman with Shoe

John Salew

as RAF Radio Operator

Jack Vyvyan

as Corporal in Ambulance

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