Ken Annakin · 1965 · road

Ken Annakin's 1965 comedy about the dawn of aviation. In 1910 a newspaper magnate puts up a grand prize for an air race from London to Paris, drawing a field of rival aviators and their absurd, beautiful flying machines into a chaotic, crash-strewn dash across the Channel.

1. 1
   London

   In 1910 a newspaper baron offers a fortune for the first man to fly from London to Paris, and aviators of every nation gather.

2. 2
   The English Channel

   Sputtering contraptions of wood and canvas wobble out over the cliffs and the open sea, where more than one comes down in the water.

3. 3
   Paris

   Against crashes, sabotage, and their own machines, the survivors of the great air race straggle in at last to Paris.