
Ships with Wings
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
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- Theatrical10 Nov 1941
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Ships with Wings was released on 10 November 1941.
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CinemaSerf
9/18/2025
After an ill-disciplined mishap while serving with the Royal Navy “Lt. Stacey” (John Clements) is unceremoniously discharged and finds himself engaged as a commercial pilot in Greece. This is all happening just as the Nazis have invaded that country and with pressure mounting on the Allied fleets in the Mediterranean it falls to the sceptical “Adm. Weatherby” (Leslie Banks) to utilise his hitherto unproven Fleet Air …
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