High Flight (film)

High Flight
Theatrical poster
Directed byJohn Gilling
Screenplay byKen Hughes
Joseph Landon
John Gilling
Jack Davies (story)
Produced byPhil C. Samuel
StarringRay Milland
Kenneth Haigh
Anthony Newley
Bernard Lee
CinematographyTed Moore
Edited byJack Slade
Music byDouglas Gamley
Eric Coates (High Flight March)
Kenneth V. Jones
Walford Davies (composer)
Anthony Newley (composer)
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • 12 September 1957 (1957-09-12) (World Premiere)
Running time
89 minutes colour (Europe)
86 minutes black and white (US)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

High Flight is a 1957 CinemaScope British Cold War film, directed by John Gilling and starring Ray Milland, Bernard Lee and Leslie Phillips.

The title of the film was derived from the 1941 poem of the same title by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr., an Anglo-American aviator who flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and lost his life in 1941 over RAF Cranwell, where much of the film was shot.