Aquellos chalados en sus locos cacharros

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

1965
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2h 18min

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Aquellos chalados en sus locos cacharros (1965)

Hoping to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, a London publisher organizes an international air race across the English Channel, but must contend with two entrants vying for his daughter, as well as national rivalries and cheating.

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Con la esperanza de llevar a Gran Bretaña a la vanguardia de la aviación, un editor londinense organiza una carrera aérea internacional a través del Canal de la Mancha.Con la esperanza de llevar a Gran Bretaña a la vanguardia de la aviación, un editor londinense organiza una carrera aérea internacional a través del Canal de la Mancha.Con la esperanza de llevar a Gran Bretaña a la vanguardia de la aviación, un editor londinense organiza una carrera aérea internacional a través del Canal de la Mancha.

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The 1910-era airplanes used in this movie were replicas built using the authentic materials of the originals, but with slightly more powerful engines. About twenty planes were built at a cost of about five thousand pounds sterling each.

Pifias
The Germans are introduced with the song "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" ("Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit") which became the national anthem in 1922. In 1910, the imperial anthem "Heil dir im Siegerkranz" had the same melody as Britain's "God Save the King" and America's "My Country Tis of Thee." However, "Deutschland" was already a well-known song, and in any case it is heard by the audience, not the characters. This distinctly German song is a deliberate choice for the scene, as playing the "God Save" melody for Germans would be extremely confusing to a modern audience.

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Count Manfred Von Holstein: [reading from flight instruction manual] Number one: Sit down.

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Closing credits: Those Magnificent Men - and Women - were ...

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Featured in The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998)

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
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Music by Ron Goodwin
Lyrics by Ron Goodwin and Lorraine Williams
Sung by chorus over main and end titles

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7/10

"Up, Down, Flying Around, Looping The Loop And Defying The Ground"

I'm one of the biggest fans of old newsreels and I don't think there are too many of us who haven't seen some of that ancient footage with all those odd contraptions showing man's attempt to fly in the early 20th century. I guess it was only a matter of time before someone got the bright idea to do a comedy from those attempts.

Some of them weren't all that funny, people did in fact get killed, a lot of them in trying to master the air. But by 1910 there were all kinds of airplanes and even some early helicopters and a lot are shown in Those Magnificent Men.

The plot centers about an international race from London to Paris sponsored by one of the English press lords played in true John Bull style by Robert Morley. He's got a spirited suffragette daughter in Sarah Miles and a most proper member of the King's Coldstream Guards in James Fox courting her.

But along comes another flier, an American cowboy, Stuart Whitman who becomes Fox's air and romantic rival. But the film's got more than that. It's got Italian hopeful Alberto Sordi who can impregnate his wife with a dirty look. It's got Frenchman Jean Pierre-Cassel who keeps running into Irina Demick every place he goes. It's even got another English contestant in Terry-Thomas who's busy trying to sabotage everyone else.

However my favorite is the German entry, Gert Frobe. Poor Frobe has to pinch hit for the original German flier who partied too hardy. But as he tries to prove as long as you follow the instruction book, the German Army can accomplish anything. Seeing him try to fly his airplane while reading the instruction book is my favorite memory of Those Magnificent Men.

That and that incredibly catchy title song. I defy anyone to watch this film and not come away humming that tune for weeks. It will embed itself in your subconscious forever.

Those Magnificent Men is good entertainment and a gentle tribute to those early air pioneers.