20:30

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

Thu 25^th Sep 1980, 20:30 on BBC Two England

Written, produced and directed by MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBURGER. Continuing the season of distinguished films celebrating one of the most successful partnerships in British cinema, starring Hugh Burden , Eric Portman
Hugh Williams
Emrys Jones , Bernard Miles and Godfrey Tearle
1941. An RAF bomber 'B for Bertie ' fails to return from a raid on Stuttgart in Germany. Six of the crew manage to bale out over occupied Netherlands and this tense, finely-observed drama follows their hazardous progress to the Channel coast, hunted by the Nazis but aided by the Dutch people.

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Directed By:: Michael Powell
Unknown:: Hugh Burden
Unknown:: Eric Portman
Unknown:: Hugh Williams
Unknown:: Emrys Jones
Unknown:: Bernard Miles
Unknown:: Godfrey Tearle
Sir George Corbett:: Godfrey Tearle
Tom Earnshaw:: Eric Portman
Frank Shelley:: Hugh Williams
Geoff Hickman:: Bernard Miles
John Glyn Haggard:: Hugh Burden
Bob Ashley:: Emrys Jones
Els Meetens:: Pamela Brown
Jet Van Dieren:: Joyce Redman
Jo de Vriens:: Googie Withers
Burgomaster:: Hay Petrie
Burgomaster's wife:: Selma Van Dias
Pieter Sluys:: Arnold Marle
De Jong:: Robert Helpmann
Priest:: Peter Ustinov
Organist:: Alec Clunes
Driver:: Hector Abbas
Louis:: James Carson
Willem:: Bill Akkerman
Maartje:: Joan Akkerman
Hendrik:: Peter Schenke
Jannie:: Valerie Moon
Sentry:: John Salew
Officer:: William D'Arcy
First airman:: David Ward
Second airman:: Robert Duncan
Naval officer:: Roland Culver
Hopkins:: Robert Beatty
Dispatching officer:: Michael Powell

Source: Radio Times

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