Thursday, November 08, 2012

Those Magnificent Flying Machines


"Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes"  (1965), was a British comedy film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck on a grand scale, which lived up to its promise by becoming very popular and grossing very well at the box office.

The original screenplay written by Ken Annakin and Jack Davies was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing Directly for the Screen (1966). The film was also nominated in the category of Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written.

At the 1966 Golden Globes, the film won Best Motion Picture Actor – Musical/Comedy for Alberto Sordi, as well as being nominated in Best Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy and Most Promising Newcomer – Male for James Fox.

The theme song from the movie:

My rendering of the flying machines does not have men; perhaps because I am a borderline, or full-grown, misanthrope.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bhai,

Beautiful. I see artistic and colorful flying saucers.

charu

Hemantha Kumar Pamarthy said...

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Ulfat ka jaam le ja
Udan khatole vaale aa re
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