PickFlick
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

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

20th Century-Fox Presents The Motion Picture That Sets Comedy Ahead 100 Years!

Part of Those Magnificent Men in Their...Collection

1965•2h 18m•6.8/10
Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb
6.8/10(191)

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

Open in PickFlick

Production

20th Century Fox

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Stuart Whitman

Stuart Whitman

Orvil Newton

Sarah Miles

Sarah Miles

Patricia Rawnsley

James Fox

James Fox

Richard Mays

Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi

Count Emilio Ponticelli

Robert Morley

Robert Morley

Lord Rawnsley

Gert Fröbe

Gert Fröbe

Colonel Manfred von Holstein

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Pierre Dubois

Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes

Courtney

Red Skelton

Red Skelton

The Neanderthal Man

Terry-Thomas

Terry-Thomas

Sir Percy Ware-Armitage

Flora Robson

Flora Robson

Mother Superior

Karl Michael Vogler

Karl Michael Vogler

Captain Rumpelstoss

Sam Wanamaker

Sam Wanamaker

George Gruber

Maurice Denham

Maurice Denham

Trawler Skipper

Gordon Jackson

Gordon Jackson

MacDougal

John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier

French Painter

James Robertson Justice

James Robertson Justice

Narrator

Ferdy Mayne

Ferdy Mayne

French Official

Benny Hill

Benny Hill

Fire Chief Perkins

Millicent Martin

Millicent Martin

Airline Hostess

Recommended

Retroactive

Retroactive

6.1
1997
Movie

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.

Retroactive

1997
6.1
Eternity and a Day

Eternity and a Day

7.8
1998
Movie

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.

Eternity and a Day

1998
7.8
Khartoum

Khartoum

6.3
1966
Movie

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Khartoum

1966
6.3
Final Portrait

Final Portrait

6.0
2017
Movie

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.

Final Portrait

2017
6.0
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

5.6
1961
Movie

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961
5.6
Hooper

Hooper

6.3
1978
Movie

Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.

Hooper

1978
6.3
Detective Story

Detective Story

7.0
1951
Movie

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

Detective Story

1951
7.0
The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail

6.1
1965
Movie

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

The Hallelujah Trail

1965
6.1
A Passage to India

A Passage to India

6.8
1984
Movie

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

A Passage to India

1984
6.8
Madigan

Madigan

6.2
1968
Movie

NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While they follow various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.

Madigan

1968
6.2
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

6.4
1984
Movie

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984
6.4
Mad Heidi

Mad Heidi

5.7
2022
Movie

In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Swiss mountain girl Heidi transforms herself into a kick-ass female fighting force who sets out to liberate the country from a cheese-fueled machinery of hate. 

Mad Heidi

2022
5.7

Similar Movies

The Late George Apley

The Late George Apley

6.9
1947
Movie

Bostonites George and Catherine Apley live a proper life in a social circle. However, their daughter Eleanor's love for Howard Boulton and their son John's union with Myrtle threatens their home.

The Late George Apley

1947
6.9
My French Amore

My French Amore

Movie

A black comedy about a man impersonating a spy in the midst of World War I.

My French Amore

Riley the Cop

Riley the Cop

5.6
1928
Movie

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

Riley the Cop

1928
5.6
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One

Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One

5.0
2001
Movie

A collection of five silent comedy shorts co-starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and produced by their own Comique Film Company: THE BELL BOY (1918), THE BUTCHER BOY (1917), OUT WEST (1918), MOONSHINE (1918), and THE HAYSEED (1919). Volume One of a two-volume DVD series from Kino Video. Musical score by the Alloy Orchestra.

Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One

2001
5.0
Gifted

Gifted

8.0
2017
Movie

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

Gifted

2017
8.0
Cop Shop Babes

Cop Shop Babes

4.0
2001
Movie

Bear and Satay are two cops who got moved to the Cop Shop Babes brigade, where they can chat up policewomen. But bomb expert Fireball wants to revenge from the Cop Shop Babes chief (Carina Lau) and the girls.

Cop Shop Babes

2001
4.0
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

6.8
1974
Movie

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

1974
6.8
God's Offices

God's Offices

6.7
2008
Movie

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.

God's Offices

2008
6.7
What Planet Are You From?

What Planet Are You From?

5.4
2000
Movie

A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love while a suspicious FAA agent tails him.

What Planet Are You From?

2000
5.4
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

6.3
1995
Movie

When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

1995
6.3
The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch

7.1
1955
Movie

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

The Seven Year Itch

1955
7.1
The Aristocats

The Aristocats

7.3
1970
Movie

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

The Aristocats

1970
7.3