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Johnny in the Clouds - really? Absolutely corking film is written by Terence Rattigan and based on an idea by he and Richard Sherman and producer Anatole de Grunwald, with inspired use of John Pudney poems. Amazing achievement to make film about air force but include not one aerial shot or airplane interior. Upper lips never stiffer, especially in truly emotional scene in which Johnny Mills has to tell Rosamund John that Peter Cook - I mean Michael Redgrave - has been killed. Good stuff about culture clash / assimilation, demonstrated in scene in which Radford tries to play baseball.
With Douglass Montgomery, Basil Radford, Renée Asherson, Joyce Carey, Stanley Holloway, Bonar Colleano, Felix Aylmer, Trevor Howard, Bill Rowbotham aka Owen, David Tomlinson, Jean Simmons, Hartley Power.
Hadn't noticed before the fateful lighter ends up with Colleano. Also like the aircraft engineer who's morose about everything.
Shot by Derrick Williams, editor Fergus McDonell, music Nicholas Brodzsky.
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