One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

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Quand un bombardier Wellington s'écrase, son équipage erre dans la Hollande occupée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Avec un courage à toute épreuve, ils se dirigent vers la mer du Nord e... Tout lireQuand un bombardier Wellington s'écrase, son équipage erre dans la Hollande occupée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Avec un courage à toute épreuve, ils se dirigent vers la mer du Nord et la liberté en faisant confiance à une femme.Quand un bombardier Wellington s'écrase, son équipage erre dans la Hollande occupée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Avec un courage à toute épreuve, ils se dirigent vers la mer du Nord et la liberté en faisant confiance à une femme.

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Nommé pour 2 oscars
- 2 victoires et 2 nominations au total

Anecdotes
One day, Noël Coward visited the set and after seeing how the crew staged and wrapped up an elaborate sequence in about two hours, decided to use most of them on Ceux qui servent en mer (1942).

Gaffes
At the very start of the film, a list is shown of the five Dutch nationals who were executed for aiding the British airmen. The first name in the list is shown as "Arie van Steenset." This is a typo. His name was actually "Arie van Steensel."

Citations
Else Meertens: Do you think that we Hollanders who threw the sea out of our country will let the Germans have it? Better the sea.

Générique farfelu
Opening credits prologue: Sunday morning, 04.26, at an operational station somewhere in England

Autres versions
Some versions only have the first part of Frank Shelley's impersonation of Sgt. Hopkins when he's told that he won't be flying. Some versions cut Frank saying "You've got to be kidding me."

Connexions
Edited into WW II Theater: One of Our Aircraft is Missing (2022)

Bandes originales
Onward Christiam Soldiers
(uncredited)
19th Century British hymn
Words by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865)
Music by Arthur Sullivan (1871)
Whistled by Bernard Cribbens

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9/10

A must-see movie for any World War II buff.

More than half a century after the happening, for anyone who still can't get enough of World War II, this is a movie not to be missed.

It tells the story of what happens to an RAF crew on a bombing mission over Europe. That story is told with skill and even though the movie was made clear back in 1942, its technical aspects still hold up beyond the millennium (something which cannot be said for many World War II movies that were made during, and even after, the happening). All credit for this movie belongs to the brilliant British (well, one Brit and one Hungarian by birth) writing- producing-directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Two other movies in this genre that immediately come to mind and which likewise should not be missed by any World War II "junkie," are: "Command Decision" (1948) and "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949). The only difference(s) between these latter two and the one being reviewed are that the latter two are American movies (set in England) while "Aircraft" is a British effort (set in England and, well, Europe). Also, unlike "Aircraft," which was made during the height of the war, these latter two were made a few years following the war's conclusion.

Other than those quite minor differences, all three of these movies belong atop any World War IIite's must-see list.