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Reach for the Sky is a 1956 British biographical film about aviator Douglas Bader, based on the 1954 biography of the same name by Paul Brickhill. The film stars Kenneth More and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film of 1956. The film's composer John Addison was Bader's brother-in-law.
Reach for the Sky is a 1954 Australian radio serial based on the book of the same name by Australian author Paul Brickhill which was a biography of Douglas Bader.It was one of the most acclaimed Australian radio dramas of the 1950s, and a notable success for Rod Taylor who played Bader.
Douglas Bader House in Fairford is now the headquarters for the RAF Charitable Trust. A biography of Bader by Paul Brickhill, Reach for the Sky, was published in 1954. Some 172,000 copies were sold in the first few months alone. [172]
The biography of Bader was published in 1954 as Reach for the Sky. In the first few months alone, 172,000 copies were sold. [29] The initial print run of 300,000 quickly sold out, and the biography became the best-selling hardback in post-war Britain. The book was subsequently adapted for the screen and released in 1956 as a feature film.
Instead, More played the Royal Air Force fighter ace, Douglas Bader, in Reach for the Sky (1956), a part refused by Richard Burton. It was the most popular British film of the year. By 1956, More's asking price was £25,000 a film. [19]
At a British Film Institute career interview in 2009, she chose Reach for the Sky (1956) as the film she most wanted to be representative of her acting work. She had read Paul Brickhill's biography of aviation hero Douglas Bader and had pursued the role of his wife Thelma. [8]
Reach for the Sky is a 1956 film starring Kenneth More as Douglas Bader. Reach for the Sky may also refer to: Reach for the Sky, a 1954 biography by Paul Brickhill about pilot Douglas Bader, the basis for the 1956 film; Reach for the Sky, a film about pilots in the Israeli army; Reach for the Sky (The Allman Brothers Band album)
Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain: New York: W.W. Norton 1954 English Paul Brickhill was a former POW and author of The Great Escape. Le Brigant, General Les Indomptables: Paris: Berger-Levrault 1948 French An early account from the French perspective Champ, Jack and Colin Burgess The Diggers of ...