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Screen cap from promotional trailer
Adaptation of
Reach for the Sky : The Story of Douglas Bader, D.S.O., D.F.C.
1954
single work
biography
Issue Details:
First known date:
1956...
1956
Reach for the Sky
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Film Details - Angel Productions , 1956
Producers:
Daniel M. Angel.
Production Companies:
Angel Productions. Presented by The Rank Organisation.
Director of Photography:
Jack Asher.
Editors:
John Shirley.
Music:
John Addison.
Cast:
Including Kenneth More (Douglas Bader), Muriel Pavlow (Thelma Bader), Lyndon Brook (Johnny Sanderson), Lee Patterson (Turner), Alexander Knox (Mr Joyce), Dorothy Alison (Nurse Brace), Michael Warre (Harry Day), Sydney Tafler (Robert Desoutter), Howard Marion-Crawford ('Woody' Woodhall), Jack Watling (Peel),Nigel Green (Streatfield), Anne Leon (Sister Thornhill), Charles Carson (Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding), Ronald Adam (Air Vice-Marshal Leigh-Mallory), and Walter Hudd (Air Vice-Marshal Halahan).
Release Dates:
5 July 1956 (premiere, London).
Location:
- Filmed in England.
Awards:
- Best British Film, BAFTA Award, 1957.
- Best British Screenplay (nominated), BAFTA Award, 1957.
- Best Film from any Source (nominated), BAFTA Award, 1957.
