They Flew Alone

They Flew Alone

British DVD cover from 2010
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Produced by Herbert Wilcox
Screenplay by Miles Malleson
Story by Viscount Castlerosse
Starring Anna Neagle
Robert Newton
Edward Chapman
Music by William Alwyn
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Edited by Geoffrey Foot
Production
company
Herbert Wilcox Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
  • 29 June 1942 (1942-06-29) (UK)
  • 18 September 1942 (1942-09-18) (US)
Running time
103 minutes (UK)
94 minutes (US)
Country United Kingdom
Language English

They Flew Alone (released in the US as Wings and the Woman) is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson, directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman.[1] It was distributed in the UK and the US by RKO Radio Pictures.

Synopsis

The film chronicled the life of Amy Johnson, the British pilot who had gained world attention in the 1930s for her exploits, among them two solo record flights from London to Cape Town in South Africa, and who had joined the Air Transport Auxiliary at the outbreak of the Second World War. It was intended to be both a film honouring Johnson, who had died in 1941 during a ferry flight of an Airspeed Oxford, and a propaganda call to arms at the height of the war years.

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