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The First of the Few

The thrilling human story behind the plane that licked the Luftwaffe!

6.7 / 10

118 minutes

1942-09-14

English

GB

Actors :

Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John, Roland Culver, Anne Firth, David Horne, J.H. Roberts, Derrick De Marney, Rosalyn Boulter, Herbert Cameron, Toni Edgar-Bruce, Gordon McLeod, George Skillan, Erik Freund, Fritz Wendhausen

Description

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/3/2024, 6:00:51 AM

Leslie Howard had a hand in just about everything here, and has delivered quite a poignant story of a dedicated and visionary man who might just have a legitimate claim to really have helped stave off the Nazis. He portrays R.J. Mitchell, a man whose vision was as an aircraft designer. We were still using bi-planes at the time and though the engineering of flight was now well established, he was d...