Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines: Difference between revisions

'''''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, [[Either or Title|or]] How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes''''', to give its [[Long Title|full title]], is a 1965 British film farce (released through [[Twentieth Century Fox]]) about an international air race held during the early, pre-[[World War I]] days of aviation. A wacky cast of characters assembles with their wacky aircraft, a love triangle develops, [[Worthy Opponent|Worthy Opponents]] square off, and great fun is had by all...except for those who can't stay in the air.

 

 

The 1969 [[Sequel]], ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' (aka ''Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies''), does for vintage cars what this movie does for vintage planes.

* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The Prussian Army's Big Book of Instructions includes instructions on how to fly an airplane. Step one: sit down.

** "Sit down" was apparently an [[Ad Lib]] by Gert Fröbe which [[Throw It In|they kept in]].

** And [[Benny Hill]] leads the Fire Battalion.

* [[Intermission]]

* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: After Richard knocks him out, Orvil complains [[Double Standard|that it was against British fair play that Richard hit him while he wasn't looking]]. That he had done the exact same thing to Richard a few scenes earlier (and something very similar to Sir Percy even earlier) does not bother him, though.

* [[Prussia]]: Colonel Manfred von Holstein is here to play out every Prussian stereotype to its fullest.

* [[Running Gag]]: The French pilot chats up a series of beauties whom he keeps confusing the names of, so that they have to introduce themselves as being of different nationalities and names. The suggestion is that all beautiful women look alike to him. {{spoiler|The joke is that they're all played by the same actress!}}

* [[Shout Out]]: Among the girls Dubois chats up are [[Brigitte Bardot|Brigitte from France]], [[Marlene Dietrich|Marlene from Germany]], and [[Ingrid Bergman|Ingrid from Sweden]].

* [[Shown Their Work]]: All the race planes in the film are fairly faithful reproductions of actual early aircraft, with some modern updates to ensure safety.