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Reach for the Sky (1956)

Director: Lewis Gilbert

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From Time Out Film Guide

Chocks away, Smithy. Maudlin, overlong, hero-worshipping stuff, with More waddling pathetically around on artificial legs impersonating Douglas Bader, symbol of everything stiff-upper-lipped and jolly good show about Britain and the RAF boys during the war. If you haven't seen this, you're probably the saner for it.

Author: GA

Time Out Film Guide

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Reach for the Sky

Cast & crew

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Producer: Daniel M Angel

Cast: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson, Alexander Knox, Dorothy Alison, Sydney Tafler full cast

Genre(s): War

Duration: 135 mins


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