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The First of the Few (US title Spitfire) is a 1942 British black-and-white biographical film produced and directed by Leslie Howard, who stars as R. J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
The documentary also uses clips from the 1942 film The First of the Few in which director and lead actor Leslie Howard portrays Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell. The film then follows the evolving design and roles of the Spitfire through the Battle of Britain, the Siege of Malta, the Normandy landings, until its eventual retirement after the war.
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (stylised on screen as .....one of our aircraft is missing) is a 1942 British black-and-white war film, mainly set in the German-occupied Netherlands. [2] It was the fourth collaboration between the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the first film they made under ...
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts and Monte Brice. It is the sequel to the 1942 film Mexican Spitfire at Sea. The film stars Lupe Vélez, Leon Errol, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Elisabeth Risdon, Donald MacBride and Minna Gombell.
The project was retooled as a Leon Errol comedy along the lines of his Mexican Spitfire features, with Spitfire veterans Charles E. Roberts and Leslie Goodwins writing and directing, respectively. Errol joined the cast in May 1945 [ 4 ] as "Matt Lindsay," the familiar character he'd played in the Spitfire comedies, and the script gave him ...
Cast Genre Notes The Battle of Midway: John Ford: Propaganda: Academy Award December 7th: The Movie: John Ford, Gregg Toland: Walter Huston, Dana Andrews: Propaganda film: Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject: The News Parade of the Year 1942: Eugene W. Castle: Short documentary: Prelude to War: Frank Capra: Documentary: The first of ...
Spitfire (New Universe), a.k.a. Spitfire and the Troubleshooters and Codename: Spitfire, a comic book published under the New Universe imprint of Marvel Comics; Project Spitfire, a fictional U.S. government project appearing in the Marvel Comics' series newuniversal; Spitfire, a character from the anime/manga Air Gear
Reed was born in 1916 in Fort Ward, Washington.Following a stint as a Broadway actor, Reed broke into films in 1941. He appeared in several features for RKO Radio Pictures, including the last two Mexican Spitfire comedies (in which Reed replaced Buddy Rogers as the Spitfire's husband).