The First of the Few Spitfire DVD Leslie Howard David Niven (1942)

$11.00

Quantity:
Availability:	In Stock

The First of the Few Spitfire DVD Leslie Howard David Niven (1942)

Spitfire was originally released in Great Britain as The First of the Few. Director Leslie Howard stars in this dramatization of the life and work of R.J. Mitchell, inventor of the Spitfire fighter plane. The film suggests, accurately as it turns out, that Mitchell was aware of Hitler's plans to conquer Europe by the air long before anyone else caught on (we see him watching a suspicious-looking group of "amateur" German gliding enthusiasts in the mid-1930s). David Niven, then a major in the British Army, was given leave to appear in this morale-boosting film as Mitchell's best friend, a dauntless test pilot. Ironically, Spitfire was released after the death of its star-director Leslie Howard, whose plane was shot down by the Germans somewhere between London and Lisbon.

Leslie Howard       - R.J. Mitchell
David Niven      - Geoffrey Crisp
Rosamund John      - Diana Mitchell
Roland Culver      - Commander Bride
Anne Firth      - Miss Harper
David Horne      - Mr. Higgins
Rosalyn Boulter      - Mabel Livesey
Tonie Edgar Bruce      - Lady Houston
George Skillan      - Mr. Royce
Herbert Cameron      - MacPherson
Gordon McLeod      - Maj. Buchan
Erik Freund      - Willi Messerschmidt
Filippo del Guidice      - Betiorelli
Robert Beatty      
Victor Beaumont      - Von Crantz
Adrian Brunel      
John Chandos      - Kranz
Bunny Currant      - Himself
Derrick de Marney      - S.L. Jefferson
George King      

Shipping:   $3.24 

Total Price $14.24 (includes shipping and handling)