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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Monte-Carlo or Bust'' averts this by the skin of its teeth. It's another race movie with vintage vehicles, made by the same production team and featuring several returning cast members, but its only in-universe link to ''Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines'' is that Terry-Thomas appears as the son of his character in the earlier film.
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** The French and German pilots... in hot air ballons and with blunderbusses.
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* RollInTheHay: A French pilot makes an emergency landing in a hay barrack in France. While a farmer is going to get help, which will cost him 30 minutes to get to the nearest farm, the pilot uses this as an ideal opportunity to make love to the Farmer's Daughter in the hay barrack
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* RollInTheHay: A French pilot makes an emergency landing in near a hay barrack haystack in France. While a farmer is going to get help, which will cost him 30 minutes to get to the nearest farm, the pilot uses this as an ideal opportunity to make love to the Farmer's Daughter in the hay barrackhay.
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Those were gas (hydrogen or helium) balloons
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* DuelToTheDeath: Two characters try to have one in hot air balloons.
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* DuelToTheDeath: Two characters try to have one in hot air balloons.
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* EarWorm: Its [[http://youtu.be/UPgS26ZhqZs theme-song]] will stay with you. Long after the film ends.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Richard. He's oddly hesitant to marry Patricia despite her being attractive, intelligent, upper class, and interested in him. He also notes how handsome Orvil is ''before'' Patricia...while talking ''to'' Patricia. [[spoiler: He doesn't mind her getting with Orvil at the end in the slightest]].
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* EpicFail: The flight-test fiasco footage at the beginning of the film.
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* BookEnds: The American release features footage of Red Skelton at both ends of the films. The first set of clips features him in a series of "historic" flight tests, such as a caveman flapping his elbows like a bird. At the end of the film, a modern Red Skelton is stuck in the airport, waiting for scheduling troubles to get sorted out, when he suddenly hits upon an idea... and begins flapping his elbows like a bird.
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* ButIReadABookAboutIt: Colonel Manfred von Holstein attempts to teach himself how to fly by reading the official German army handbook on piloting; while he is flying. He does surprisingly well until he drops the book.
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* MidairRepair: Orville takes Patricia up in his flying machine, and even lets her control it. But one of the wing spars breaks, so he walks out on the wing and fixes it by wrapping his belt around it, losing his pants in the process. All turns out well.
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* MidairRepair: Orville takes Patricia up in his flying machine, and even lets her control it. But one of the wing spars interplane struts between the wings breaks, so he walks out on the wing and fixes it by wrapping his belt around it, losing his pants in the process. All turns out well.
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* {{Prussia}}: Colonel Manfred von Holstein is here to play out every Prussian stereotype to its fullest.
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* {{Prussia}}: {{Prussia}}[=/=]UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben: Colonel Manfred von Holstein is here to play out every Prussian stereotype to its fullest.
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* DastardlyWhiplash: Sir Percy Ware-Armitage.
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[[AllStarCast The brilliant international cast]] includes Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Yûjirô Ishihara, John Le Mesurier, Benny Hill, and Terry-Thomas as Sir Percy Ware-Armitage. Extra footage added for the American release featured popular comedian Red Skelton as a hapless victim of flight tests throughout the ages.
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[[AllStarCast The brilliant international cast]] includes Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Yûjirô Ishihara, John Le Mesurier, Benny Hill, and Terry-Thomas Creator/TerryThomas as Sir Percy Ware-Armitage. Extra footage added for the American release featured popular comedian Red Skelton as a hapless victim of flight tests throughout the ages.
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* EarWorm: Its [[http://youtu.be/UPgS26ZhqZs theme-song]] will stay with you. Long after the film ends.
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* LetsGetDangerous: The nuns are initially apathetic to the Count's airplane problems... until the Count pines that the race will be won by a Protestant because of his situation, at which point the nuns decide to help him get back in the air anyway.
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I was thinking the name of the actress there. XP
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' take Sarah flying and let her father hear about it. Orvil was lucky to not be DQ'd on her account.
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' take Sarah Patricia flying and let her father hear about it. Orvil was lucky to not be DQ'd on her account.
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* ShoutOut: Among the girls Dubois chats up are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot Brigitte from France]], [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene from Germany]], and [[IngridBergman Ingrid from Sweden]].
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* ShoutOut: Among the girls Dubois chats up are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot Brigitte from France]], [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene from Germany]], and [[IngridBergman [[Creator/IngridBergman Ingrid from Sweden]].
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* {{Kaiserreich}}: The German team, Captain Rumpelstoss (Karl Michael Vogler) and Colonel Manfred von Holstein (Gert Fröbe).
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* RollInTheHay: A French pilot makes an emergency landing in a hay barrack in France. While a farmer is going to get help, which will cost him 30 minutes to get to the nearest farm, the pilot uses this as an ideal opportunity to make love to the Farmer's Daughter in the hay barrack
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** Apparently the silent footage was lifted wholesale from a 1920s compilation short.
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* NationalStereotypes: Most of the participants of the race are humorous caricatures of their nationality. There's the lustful Frenchman, the strict, [[NiceHat pointy-hatted]] [[{{Prussia}} Prussian]] soldier, the boisterous Italian bringing his whole family with him, etc. Though it is a British film, BritishStuffiness is certainly there, too.
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** Apparently Some of the silent footage was lifted wholesale from a 1920s compilation short.
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* NationalStereotypes: Most of the participants of the race are humorous caricatures of their nationality. There's the lustful Frenchman, the strict, [[NiceHat pointy-hatted]] [[{{Prussia}} Prussian]] soldier, the cocksure American cowboy, the boisterous Italian bringing his whole family with him, etc. Though it is a British film, BritishStuffiness is certainly there, too.
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* InterestingSituationDuel: Balloons and blunderbusses.
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* BrickJoke: During the Germans' test flight (the one that goes horribly wrong) the fire engine knocks out a section of wall between the field and the sewage farm. At the end of the scene when the German officer has lost control of the motorbike, he ends up going through that section of wall.
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* MidairRepair: Orville takes Patricia up in his flying machine, and even lets her control it. But one of the wing spars breaks, so he walks out on the wing and fixes it by wrapping his belt around it, losing his pants in the process. All turns out well.
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The 1969 {{sequel}}, ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' (aka ''Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies''), does for vintage cars what this movie does for vintage planes.
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The 1969 {{sequel}}, ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' (aka ''Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies''), does for with vintage cars what this movie does for with vintage planes.
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* ShoutOut: Among the girls Dubois chats up are [[BrigitteBardot Brigitte from France]], [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene from Germany]], and [[IngridBergman Ingrid from Sweden]].
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* ShoutOut: Among the girls Dubois chats up are [[BrigitteBardot [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot Brigitte from France]], [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene from Germany]], and [[IngridBergman Ingrid from Sweden]].
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: Sarah Miles and the other actresses are clad in a veritable cornucopia of elegant EdwardianEra fashions.
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->''Those magnificent men in their flying machines,\\
They go up diddley up-up, they go down diddley down-down!''
'''''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, [[EitherOrTitle or]] How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes''''', to give its [[LongTitle full title]], is a 1965 British film farce (released through TwentiethCenturyFox) about an international air race held during the early, pre-WorldWarI days of aviation. A wacky cast of characters assembles with their wacky aircraft, a love triangle develops, {{Worthy Opponent}}s square off, and great fun is had by all... except for those who can't stay in the air.
[[AllStarCast The brilliant international cast]] includes Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Yûjirô Ishihara, John Le Mesurier, Benny Hill, and Terry-Thomas as Sir Percy Ware-Armitage. Extra footage added for the American release featured popular comedian Red Skelton as a hapless victim of flight tests throughout the ages.
The 1969 {{sequel}}, ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' (aka ''Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies''), does for vintage cars what this movie does for vintage planes.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AmusingInjuries
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Featuring the magnificent art of Ronald Searle.
* TheBigRace
* CoolPlane: Well, in the era of the setting, ''any'' plane that can stay aloft for more than five minutes is essentially cool by default. But the amusing early flying machines are certainly a focal point of the film.
* [[DisposableFiance Disposable Fiancé]]: [[spoiler:Richard]] gradually emerges as one.
* DuelToTheDeath: Two characters try to have one in hot air balloons.
** Ahem: "Balloons... AND BLUNDERBUSSES!"
* EpicRace
* TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Sarah Miles and the other actresses are clad in a veritable cornucopia of elegant EdwardianEra fashions.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Prussian Army's Big Book of Instructions includes instructions on how to fly an airplane. Step one: sit down.
** "Sit down" was apparently an AdLib by Gert Fröbe which [[ThrowItIn they kept in]].
* InnocentInnuendo: Richard Mays would like to take Patricia "up". Her father is okay with that... [[BaitAndSwitch until Mays reveals that he means physically flying with her in his plane]].
* {{Intermission}}
* [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: After Richard knocks him out, Orvil complains [[DoubleStandard that it was against British fair play that Richard hit him while he wasn't looking]]. That he had done the exact same thing to Richard a few scenes earlier (and something very similar to Sir Percy even earlier) does not bother him, though.
** The French and Prussian pilots... in hot air ballons and with blunderbusses.
* {{Mockumentary}}: The film opens with a narrator describing Man's age-old quest for flight with relevant clips, some real, some not. It's amazing we ever succeeded...
** Apparently the silent footage was lifted wholesale from a 1920s compilation short.
* NationalStereotypes: Most of the participants of the race are humorous caricatures of their nationality. There's the lustful Frenchman, the strict, [[NiceHat pointy-hatted]] [[{{Prussia}} Prussian]] soldier, the boisterous Italian bringing his whole family with him, etc. Though it is a British film, BritishStuffiness is certainly there, too.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKxMlovi4o&feature=PlayList&p=4EA6BDC0C1691CFE&playnext_from=PL&index=6 One YouTube review]] points out that some of the offensiveness is mitigated by the fact that all of the actors are the nationalities of the characters they're playing and are clearly having a ball playing up their roles to the hilt. Maybe it's because absolutely nobody gets off scot-free; ''everyone'' is painted in a stereotypical way.
** It is somewhat subverted in the case of the Japanese pilot in that he fails to conform to 1910-era expectations, not only by speaking flawless English and having a taste for Scotch whisky, but also in the scene when his plane crashes on take-off. When he asks for a knife it is not, as the fireman fears, to commit Harakiri, but to free himself from entangling wires.
* {{Prussia}}: Colonel Manfred von Holstein is here to play out every Prussian stereotype to its fullest.
* RunningGag: The French pilot chats up a series of beauties whom he keeps confusing the names of, so that they have to introduce themselves as being of different nationalities and names. The suggestion is that all beautiful women look alike to him. [[spoiler:The joke is that they're all played by the same actress!]]
* [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Screw the Rules, I Have Money!]]: Sir Percy Ware-Armitage's attitude. (Orvil on the other hand clearly thinks he deserves special consideration because unlike the other participants he is poor.)
* ShoutOut: Among the girls Dubois chats up are [[BrigitteBardot Brigitte from France]], [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene from Germany]], and [[IngridBergman Ingrid from Sweden]].
* ShownTheirWork: All the race planes in the film are fairly faithful reproductions of actual early aircraft, with some modern updates to ensure safety.
* StiffUpperLip: Richard and the Navy pilot.
* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: The TropeNamer.
* WackyRacing: If nothing else, the amusing characters and the very nature of the race make it quite wacky.
* WorthyOpponent: Richard and Orvil eventually develop respect for each other.
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->''Those magnificent men in their flying machines,\\
They go up diddley up-up, they go down diddley down-down!''
'''''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, [[EitherOrTitle or]] How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes''''', to give its [[LongTitle full title]], is a 1965 British film farce (released through TwentiethCenturyFox) about an international air race held during the early, pre-WorldWarI days of aviation. A wacky cast of characters assembles with their wacky aircraft, a love triangle develops, {{Worthy Opponent}}s square off, and great fun is had by all... except for those who can't stay in the air.
[[AllStarCast The brilliant international cast]] includes Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Yûjirô Ishihara, John Le Mesurier, Benny Hill, and Terry-Thomas as Sir Percy Ware-Armitage. Extra footage added for the American release featured popular comedian Red Skelton as a hapless victim of flight tests throughout the ages.
The 1969 {{sequel}}, ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' (aka ''Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies''), does for vintage cars what this movie does for vintage planes.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AmusingInjuries
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Featuring the magnificent art of Ronald Searle.
* TheBigRace
* CoolPlane: Well, in the era of the setting, ''any'' plane that can stay aloft for more than five minutes is essentially cool by default. But the amusing early flying machines are certainly a focal point of the film.
* [[DisposableFiance Disposable Fiancé]]: [[spoiler:Richard]] gradually emerges as one.
* DuelToTheDeath: Two characters try to have one in hot air balloons.
** Ahem: "Balloons... AND BLUNDERBUSSES!"
* EpicRace
* TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Sarah Miles and the other actresses are clad in a veritable cornucopia of elegant EdwardianEra fashions.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Prussian Army's Big Book of Instructions includes instructions on how to fly an airplane. Step one: sit down.
** "Sit down" was apparently an AdLib by Gert Fröbe which [[ThrowItIn they kept in]].
* InnocentInnuendo: Richard Mays would like to take Patricia "up". Her father is okay with that... [[BaitAndSwitch until Mays reveals that he means physically flying with her in his plane]].
* {{Intermission}}
* [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: After Richard knocks him out, Orvil complains [[DoubleStandard that it was against British fair play that Richard hit him while he wasn't looking]]. That he had done the exact same thing to Richard a few scenes earlier (and something very similar to Sir Percy even earlier) does not bother him, though.
** The French and Prussian pilots... in hot air ballons and with blunderbusses.
* {{Mockumentary}}: The film opens with a narrator describing Man's age-old quest for flight with relevant clips, some real, some not. It's amazing we ever succeeded...
** Apparently the silent footage was lifted wholesale from a 1920s compilation short.
* NationalStereotypes: Most of the participants of the race are humorous caricatures of their nationality. There's the lustful Frenchman, the strict, [[NiceHat pointy-hatted]] [[{{Prussia}} Prussian]] soldier, the boisterous Italian bringing his whole family with him, etc. Though it is a British film, BritishStuffiness is certainly there, too.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKxMlovi4o&feature=PlayList&p=4EA6BDC0C1691CFE&playnext_from=PL&index=6 One YouTube review]] points out that some of the offensiveness is mitigated by the fact that all of the actors are the nationalities of the characters they're playing and are clearly having a ball playing up their roles to the hilt. Maybe it's because absolutely nobody gets off scot-free; ''everyone'' is painted in a stereotypical way.
** It is somewhat subverted in the case of the Japanese pilot in that he fails to conform to 1910-era expectations, not only by speaking flawless English and having a taste for Scotch whisky, but also in the scene when his plane crashes on take-off. When he asks for a knife it is not, as the fireman fears, to commit Harakiri, but to free himself from entangling wires.
* {{Prussia}}: Colonel Manfred von Holstein is here to play out every Prussian stereotype to its fullest.
* RunningGag: The French pilot chats up a series of beauties whom he keeps confusing the names of, so that they have to introduce themselves as being of different nationalities and names. The suggestion is that all beautiful women look alike to him. [[spoiler:The joke is that they're all played by the same actress!]]
* [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Screw the Rules, I Have Money!]]: Sir Percy Ware-Armitage's attitude. (Orvil on the other hand clearly thinks he deserves special consideration because unlike the other participants he is poor.)
* ShoutOut: Among the girls Dubois chats up are [[BrigitteBardot Brigitte from France]], [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene from Germany]], and [[IngridBergman Ingrid from Sweden]].
* ShownTheirWork: All the race planes in the film are fairly faithful reproductions of actual early aircraft, with some modern updates to ensure safety.
* StiffUpperLip: Richard and the Navy pilot.
* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: The TropeNamer.
* WackyRacing: If nothing else, the amusing characters and the very nature of the race make it quite wacky.
* WorthyOpponent: Richard and Orvil eventually develop respect for each other.
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