Storyline

By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after Hitler assumes power convinces him that it is vital to design a completely new type of fighter plane and that sooner or later Britain's very survival may depend on what he comes to call the Spitfire.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords

nazi, terminal illness, royal air force, nazi germany, fighter pilot, directed by star, aviation, fascist, heart disease, test pilot, reference to benito mussolini, reference to adolf hitler, reference to winston churchill, reference to joseph goebbels, newspaper headline, spanish civil war, plane crash, archive footage, world war two

Short Review

A finely tasteful, faithful biography of one of Britain's newest and least-known heroes-the late, great aircraft designer Reginald Joseph Mitchell.

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