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Wikipedia article




'They Flew Alone' (released in the US as 'Wings and the Woman') is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman. It was distributed in the UK and the US by RKO Radio Pictures.

Plot



The film chronicles the life of Amy Johnson, the British pilot who had gained world attention in the 1930s for her exploits, among them two solo record flights from London to Cape Town in South Africa, and who had joined the Air Transport Auxiliary at the outbreak of the Second World War. It was intended to be both a film honouring Johnson, who had died in 1941 during a ferry flight of an Airspeed Oxford, and a propaganda call to arms at the height of the war years.

Cast



* Anna Neagle as Amy Johnson

* Robert Newton as Jim Mollison

* Edward Chapman as Mr. Johnson

* Nora Swinburne as ATA Commandant

* Joan Kemp-Welch as Mrs. Johnson

* Brefni O'Rorke as Mac

* Charles Carson as Lord Wakefield

* Martita Hunt as Miss Bland

* Anthony Shaw as Official

* Eliot Makeham as Mayor of Croydon

* David Horne as Solicitor

* Miles Malleson as Vacuum Salesman

* Aubrey Mallalieu as Bill, the Barber

* Charles Victor as Postmaster

* Hay Petrie as Old General

* John Slater as Officer on Interview Panel

* Percy Parsons as Man

* Cyril Smith as Radio Operator On 'Aquitania'

* George Merritt as Reporter

* Muriel George as Kitty, the Housekeeper

* Ian Fleming as Secretary

* William Hartnell as Scotty (as Billy Hartnell)

* Arthur Hambling as Policeman

* Peter Gawthorne as RAF Officer

* Ronald Shiner as mechanic at Stag Lane

References




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