Angels One Five

Angels One Five (1952)

A Story of Some of "The Few"...

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.

Date of release
1952-03-19
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (35)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
George More O'Ferrall

Casting

Interesting facts

Angels One Five is a 1952 British war film directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, John Gregson, Cyril Raymond and Veronica Hurst. Based on the book What Are Your Angels Now? by Pelham Groom, the plot centres on a young fighter pilot immediately before and during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Some scenes in the film were shot at RAF Uxbridge, where there was a wartime operations room.

Production

The film was financed by the Elstree Group a financing scheme that operated for British films made by Associated British Pictures Corporation in the early 1950s. Associated British would make movies with part of the finance being provided by the National Film Finance Corporation.

Angels One Five featured a number of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft, with at least six airworthy examples, plus several others only used for static shots. Known aircraft include: Hurricane Mk.Is (L1592 and P2617) and Mk.IIc (LF363) on loan from the RAF Air Historical Branch, Hurricane Mk IIc (PZ865) lent by Hawker Aircraft, plus an additional five Hurricane Mk.IIc aircraft (numbers 544, 554, 600, 601, 624) from the Portuguese Air Force, which…

Ronald Adam, who plays the part of a Group Controller, was the Fighter Group Controller at RAF Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain. Squadron Leader Adam was a veteran of both the First and Second World Wars.

Kenneth More desperately wanted to play the role of Batchy but was unable to as he had signed to make Appointment with Venus.

Michael Denison said he had "a reasonable though not particularly exciting part" but considered the film a let-down as his wife, Dulcie, “was persuaded to accept a small part on the understanding that a scene would be added which would enable her, as a service wife, to do for the RAF what Celia Johnson did so memorably for the Navy in Noël Coward's In Which We Serve.

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