#those magnificent men in their flying machines

[missanthropicprinciple]

Terry-Thomas | selected filmography + PSAs | 1936-1966

Once in a Million 1936

It's Love Again 1936

For Freedom 1940

Under Your Hat 1940

If You Don't Save Paper (PSA) 1948

Copy Book Please (PSA) 1948

A Date with a Dream 1948

The Brass Monkey 1948

Helter Skelter 1949

Melody Club 1949

What's Cooking? (PSA) 1951

Private's Progress 1956

The Green Man 1956

Brothers in Law 1956

Lucky Jim 1957

The Naked Truth 1957

Blue Murder at St Trinian's 1957

Happy Is the Bride 1958

Too Many Crooks 1959

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. 1959

I'm All Right Jack 1959

School for Scoundrels 1960

Make Mine Mink 1960

A Matter of WHO 1961

Bachelor Flat 1962

Kill or Cure 1962

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963

How to Murder Your Wife 1965

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines 1965

La Grande Vadrouille 1966

[annlarimer]

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

[laziestgirlintown]

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965), my yearly birthday treat (and some other days)

[andietries]

And the award to “The Britishest book I have found” goes tooo

Gay Paree and Gay scene

A foreigner beating an Englishman??? Why would you think that could happen???

[claudia1829things]

Top Favorite Aviation Movies

Below is a list of my favorite movies themed around aviation:

TOP FAVORITE AVIATION MOVIES

1. "Airport" (1970) - Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin starred in this adaptation of Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel about the discovery of a bomber aboard a Chicago-to-Rome flight. George Seaton directed.

2. "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" (1965) - Ken Annakin wrote and directed this all-star comedy about a 1910 air race from London to Paris. Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles and James Fox starred.

3. "Apollo 13 (1995) - Ron Howard directed this adaptation of "Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13", Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger's 1994 book about NASA's ill-fated fifth mission to the moon. Tom Hanks, Gary Sinese and Kathleen Quinlan starred.

4. "The Rocketeer" (1991) - Bill Campbell starred in this adaptation of Dave Steven's comic book about a stunt pilot-turned-costumed hero battling Nazi agents in 1938 Los Angeles. Directed by Joe Johnston, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Connelly co-starred.

5. "The Right Stuff" (1983) - Philip Kaufman directed this adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about Project Mercury, NASA's first program of test pilots-turned-astronauts. Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward and Scott Glenn starred.

6. "The Aviator" (2004) - Martin Scorsese directed this adaptation of "Howard Hughes: The Secret Life", the 1993 book about Howard Hughes' life as an aviator and film producer between 1927 and 1947. Leonardo DiCaprio starred.

7. "Death in the Clouds" (1992) - David Suchet starred as Hercule Poirot in this television adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1935 novel. Stephen Whittaker directed.

8. "Pearl Harbor" (2001) - Michael Bay directed this fictionalized account of the December 1941 attack upon the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. The movie starred Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale and Josh Harnett.

9. "Flight" (2012) - Denzel Washington starred in this movie about an alcoholic airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mechanical failure. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Don Cheadle and Kelly Reilly co-starred.

10. "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" (1990) - Bruce Willis starred as John McClane in this adaptation of Walter Wager's 1987 novel and sequel to the 1988 movie, "Die Hard". Renny Harlin directed.

[graaaaceeliz]

I now really want to put on a stage play of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. The planes can be cardboard so that they can crash and collapse but still look as silly as they should. Characters can have one single outfit so more time can go to the planes. The German officers always have huge books as their manuals. The cowboy always has western style country music. The girls are, like the film, played by the same woman in a different dress. The Pontecelli family is at least 15 kids. The accents are outrageous.

It's a comedy from 1966 skitting the development of flight, and it's so funny and full of great one liners and running gags.

[dougielombax]

No!

Not those magnificent men in their flying machines!

*old crusty-ass wooden biplane crashes violently in a nearby field*

[thejewofkansas]

The Weekly Gravy #191

AGGRO DR1FT (2023) – *** I had every reason to believe I would hate AGGRO DR1FT, and if I wanted to make the case that it’s one of the worst films of the year—even one of the worst in recent memory—I certainly could. Maybe the low expectations allowed me to appreciate it, after a fashion; maybe my general regard for Harmony Korine made me more inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt in…

[wrenchinator-central]

I’m SHOCKED that someone else knows Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines????!!!!!

Yeah! My library growing up had a copy, and we rented for a vacation once. A couple years later I got my own copy for a birthday!

[cinemajunkie70]

[selfiesforalgernon]

Yoooo I just actually found a movie I'd seen before years ago and couldn't remember! So I don't forget, shout out to one of the clunkiest titles but a pretty good movie (and a remake actually, I didn't know) The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun so I saw the 2015 remake maybe close to when it came out it was so long ago, but I guess there's an original I gotta check out from the 70s.. there is a weird tradition that I think comes from all that 70s exploitation/giallo/thriller shit where the title is a sentence, that you see now with more indie stuff like A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night or Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman or The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears but every one of those I've seen I've liked lol

(As a fun little add-on, who could forget the og king of long titles, ahem: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines -or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes (yes that whole thing is the title))

[sarah8herstuff]

Another movie I've watched

Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines, 1965

Old but good, and never boring. Such a masterpiece for that time

[laziestgirlintown]

Ok, having finished reading The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee and finished watching Good Omens s2 in the same day, I am emotionally overloaded and need one of my favourite films to soothe me, and I like thinking that John Finnemore also conceivably likes it. (I can't deal with tumblr re s2 yet. At least one rewatch first.)

[hotvintagepoll]

Robert Morley (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Gilbert and Sullivan, The Old Dark House)—With his sepulchral cadence, plummy tones, and penchant for chewing the scenery, Morley is a venerable institution of twentieth century British cinema. Here he is being a sleepy boyo, here he is wearing maybe the worst little fake beard ever, and here he is doing some silly little jumps.

Humphrey Bogart (The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place, Dark Passage)—Now I know he may be one of the all time classic leading men of vintage cinema and that seems decidedly unscrungly in a way and yet! He's also definitely not what a lot of people would describe as *conventionally* handsome. The man scrungled his way to the top. Plus, for me, the archetypical hardboiled detective is an inherently scrungly figure- he doesn't always have his life together and sometimes maybe he's even a tiny bit pathetic and yet is still somehow always charming as hell. And so of course Bogart, being the face of two of the most iconic hardboiled detectives of all time, embodies that noir antihero scrungliness to me.

This is round 1 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Robert Morley:

Here he is so happy to start a race among all the flying machines in the world in 1900 and something.

Humphrey Bogart:

[opelman]

A change of pace by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: The Shuttleworth Collection's Roe IV Triplane takes to the skies at Old Warden during the 2024 Summer Evening Air Show. This full-scale replica of the 1910 design was built for the 1965 film "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines". Aircraft: Replica A.V. Roe & Company IV Triplane. Location: Old Warden Aerodrome, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

[gatutor]

Cartel película "Aquellos chalados en sus locos cacharros" (Those magnificent men in their flying machines) 1965, de Ken Annakin.