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Saturday Cinema: 1: One of Our Aircraft is Missing

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on BBC Two England

continues a season of films celebrating the 80th birthday of the British director Michael Powell, this afternoon starring Eric Portman, Godfrey Tearle

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 Holland and this tense, finely-observed drama follows their hazardous progress to the Channel coast, hunted by the Nazis but aided by the Dutch people.

Films: page 17

Contributors

Writer/Producer/Director:
Michael Powell
Writer/Producer/Director:
Emeric Pressburger
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 Meertens:
Pamela Brown
Jet van Dieren:
Joyce Redman
Jo de Vries:
Googie Withers
Burgomaster:
Hay Petrie
Burgomaster's wife:
Selma Vaz Dias
Pieter Sluys:
Arnold Marle
De Jong:
Robert Helpmann
Priest:
Peter Ustinov
Organist:
Alec Clunes
Source: Radio Times

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