Search - One of Our Aircraft Is Missing on DVD

Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1941 DVD Release: 10/28/2008 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 42 mins Studio: Alpha Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama, War, War Drama, Resistance Film

This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Six British bomber crewmen are obliged to bail out over Holland. To escape detection from the Nazis, the crewmen accept the hospitality of several Hollanders, all dedicated to the freedom-fighting activities of the Underground. The film is constructed along the lines of the earlier Powell-Pressburger film The Invaders, except that the escapees are British rather than German and their Dutch contacts are willing rather than reluctant co-conspirators. The six male stars are Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, and Emrys Jones; among those who aid them in their flight to freedom are Googie Withers, Joyce Redman, and Peter Ustinov. The austere photography by Ronald Neame is complemented by the to-the-point editing of future director David Lean. Adding to the verisimilitude of One of Our Aircraft Is Missing is the utter absence of a musical score. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Godfrey Tearle - Sir George Corbett
Eric Portman - Tom Earnshaw
Hugh Williams - Frank Shelley
Bernard Miles - Geoff Hickman
Pamela Brown - Else Meertens
Hugh Burden - John Glyn Haggard