DVD: 
Ealing Collection Classic - Nominated for 4 BAFTA awards
Starring Jack Hawkins and Elizabeth Sellars
Directed by Charles Crichton
Out To Own On Digitally Restored* DVD March 29th 2010
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell (Jack Hawkins, Mandy, The Cruel Sea, League of Gentlemen) to make a better life for his wife Mary (Elizabeth Sellars) and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree (Donald Pleasance) and buyer's representative Ashmore (Eddie Byrne). Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway (Walter Fitzgerald), that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea and begins an epic struggle to land safely…. From Ealing stalwart Charles Crichton (Lavender Hill Mob, Dead of Night)
The DVD is released on March 29th, it runs for 84 mins and is available on Amazon £9.99 (RRP £15.99).
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