Film of the Day: Twisted Pair

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MOVIE

The Conquest of the Air

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1936

71 minutes (1 hrs 11 mins)

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Directed by

Alexander Esway · Zoltan Korda · John Monk Saunders · Alexander Shaw · Donald Taylor

Starring

Frederick Culley · Laurence Olivier · Franklin Dyall · Henry Victor · Hay Petrie · John Turnbull

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Release dates

US release: 20th May 1940

Certificates

US
Not Rated

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Director

Role

Alexander Esway

Directed By

Zoltan Korda

Directed By

John Monk Saunders

Directed By

Alexander Shaw

Directed By

Donald Taylor

Directed By

Actor

Character

Frederick Culley

Roger Bacon

Laurence Olivier

Vincent Lunardi

Franklin Dyall

Jerome de Ascoli

Henry Victor

Otto Lilienthal

Hay Petrie

Tiberius Cavallo

John Turnbull

Ferdinand Von Zeppelin

Charles Lefeaux

Louis Bleriot

Bryan Powley

Sir George Cayley

Alan Wheatley

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

John Abbott

Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier

Charles Frend

Narrator

Edward Ashley

Minor Role

Italo Balbo

Self

Memo Benassi

Francesco Lama di Brescia

Denville Bond

Oliver of Malmesbury

Tom Campbell Black

Self

Charles Carrett

Latham's manager

Andrea Checchi

Zoroastro

Winston Churchill

Self

Arthur Clouston

Self

Paul Codos

Self

Bryan Coleman

Minor Role

Derrick De Marney

Minor Role

Amelia Earhart

Self

Don Gemmell

Minor Role

Cameron Hall

Dr. John Jeffries

Henry Hallatt

Jean-Pierre Blanchard

Pearl Hay

Minor Role

Ronnie Hepworth

Boy

Charles Hickman

Orville Wright

Bert Hinkler

Self

Anthony Holles

Paul Bleylich-Lilienthal's mechanic

David Horne

Nero

Amy Johnson

Self

Charles Kingsford Smith

Self

Betty Kirby-Green

Self

Kenneth Kove

Gentleman at Lunardi's reception

Charles A. Lindbergh

Self

Peter Madden

American airliner pilot

Percy Marmont

Wilbur Wright

David Nicol

Alfred Leblanc

Carlo Ninchi

Gabriele Adanti di Perugia

Hilary Pritchard

Cayley's coachman

Michael Rennie

Marquis d'Arlandes

Maurice Rossi

Self

Roy Royston

Hubert Latham

C.W.A. Scott

Self

Margaretta Scott

Isobella d'Este

Leonard Shepherd

Abbot Damian of Sterling

Dick Vernon

Simon the Magician

Ben Webster

Leonardo da Vinci