Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

“20th Century-Fox Presents The Motion Picture That Sets Comedy Ahead 100 Years!”

Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley), a newspaper owner chasing circulation, announces an air race and puts up £10,000 for the first pilot to cross the English Channel. Entrants arrive from across the world, among them the American Orvil Newton (Stuart Whitman) and the English Richard Mays (James Fox). Ken Annakin sets them against one another in this 1965 comedy, and one rival is already planning to sabotage the planes of the others before the first one leaves the ground.