It's in the Air

It's in the Air (1938)

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.

Date of release
1938-11-01
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Anthony Kimmins

Casting

Interesting facts

It’s in the Air is a 1938 British comedy film written and directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring George Formby, Polly Ward and Jack Hobbs. The film was released in the United States with the alternative title George Takes the Air in 1940. The film depicts Great Britain's preparations for war with ARP warden training, mock air attacks dropping poison gas bombs and the deployment of antiaircraft weapons in the streets.

Production

It’s in the Air was partly produced at the former London Air Park in Feltham, Middlesex. The scenes of the air-raid exercise at the opening of the film are taken from the scenes of an aerial attack in Alexander Korda's Things to Come (1936).

The aircraft featured in It’s in the Air are:

The film's art direction was led by Wilfred Shingleton.

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