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1940 | DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER ESWAY, ZOLTAN KORDA, JOHN MONK SAUNDERS, ALEXANDER SHAW AND DONALD TAYLOR

The Conquest of the Air

Directed by

 
Alexander Esway
 
Zoltan Korda
 
John Monk Saunders
 
Alexander Shaw
 
Donald Taylor

Producers

Name
Role
 
Alexander Korda
Producer
 
Nigel Tangye
Associate Producer

Written by

Writer
Role
 
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Stories
 
Hugh Gray
Commentary
 
John Monk Saunders
Written By
 
Peter Bezencenet
Commentary

Music by

Artist
Role
 
Arthur Bliss
Music

Starring

Actors
Character
 
Frederick Culley
Roger Bacon
Vincent Lunardi
 
Franklin Dyall
Jerome de Ascoli
 
Henry Victor
Otto Lilienthal
 
Hay Petrie
Tiberius Cavallo
 
John Turnbull
Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
 
Charles Lefeaux
Louis Bleriot
 
Bryan Powley
Sir George Cayley
 
Alan Wheatley
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
 
John Abbott
Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier
 
Charles Frend
Narrator
 
Edward Ashley
Minor Role
 
Italo Balbo
Self
 
Memo Benassi
Francesco Lama di Brescia
 
Denville Bond
Oliver of Malmesbury
 
Tom Campbell Black
Self
 
Charles Carrett
Latham's manager
 
Andrea Checchi
Zoroastro
 
Winston Churchill
Self
 
Arthur Clouston
Self
 
Paul Codos
Self
 
Bryan Coleman
Minor Role
 
Derrick De Marney
Minor Role
 
Amelia Earhart
Self
 
Don Gemmell
Minor Role
 
Cameron Hall
Dr. John Jeffries
 
Henry Hallatt
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
 
Pearl Hay
Minor Role
 
Ronnie Hepworth
Boy
 
Charles Hickman
Orville Wright
 
Bert Hinkler
Self
 
Anthony Holles
Paul Bleylich-Lilienthal's mechanic
 
David Horne
Nero
 
Amy Johnson
Self
 
Charles Kingsford Smith
Self
 
Betty Kirby-Green
Self
 
Kenneth Kove
Gentleman at Lunardi's reception
 
Charles A. Lindbergh
Self
 
Peter Madden
American airliner pilot
 
Percy Marmont
Wilbur Wright
 
David Nicol
Alfred Leblanc
 
Carlo Ninchi
Gabriele Adanti di Perugia
 
Hilary Pritchard
Cayley's coachman
 
Michael Rennie
Marquis d'Arlandes
 
Maurice Rossi
Self
 
Roy Royston
Hubert Latham
 
C.W.A. Scott
Self
 
Margaretta Scott
Isobella d'Este
 
Leonard Shepherd
Abbot Damian of Sterling
 
Dick Vernon
Simon the Magician
 
Ben Webster
Leonardo da Vinci