Out of the Clouds 08/30/25

Aviation buffs will see plenty to admire in Basil Dearden’s drama of events at London’s Heathrow Airport. The show comes off as a low-stress precursor to our Airport, back when the notion of routine air travel was a glamorous and romantic novelty. It also functions as an institutional advert for British aviation and good PR for the shrinking Empire. Film fans not impressed by the simple & sincere personalities depicted may be tickled by the score of actors we associate with Ealing comedies and Hammer horrors. Anthony Steele and Robert Beatty are tame male leads, but there’s plenty of charisma with James Robertson Justice, Eunice Gayson, Gordon Harker, Bernard Lee, Marie Lohr, Abraham Sofaer, Melissa Stribling, Sidney James, Megs Jenkins and Katie Johnson. On Blu-ray from Powerhouse Indicator.
08/30/25