England Leslie Howard
Well done patriotic effort from 1942 that traces the evolution of the Spitfire airplane which at that time was a main factor saving the English from a German invasion. Even ignoring the jingoism inherent in a film with this topic made at that time it stands up very well to modern scrutiny.
Howard produced, directed and starred...it was his last film before his untimely death a year later...ironically in a plane crash. The film was an obvious precursor to H. Miyazaki's final film The Wind Rises. Both films show the toll taken on visionary developers working in the early years of aviation.
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