Stolen Airliner, The (Children’s Film Foundation)
Date: 1955
Director: Don Sharp
Production Company: Associated British-Pathé, Children's Film Foundation (CFF)
Stars: Diana Day, Fella Edmonds, Michael Maguire, Nicola Braithwaite, Peter Dyneley, Ballard Berkeley, Iris Russell
Location(s): Hampshire
Region(s): South East R-Z
Storyline:
Three young air cadets foil a gang of revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.
Additional Information:
Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson
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After the experimental ZO9 aircraft flies over, a car brings a delegation from Fragovinia to the film's Somerton Airfield. The Vickers-Armstrong facility at Hurn in Hampshire.
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The Humber Pullman passes the hanger where the new plane is being constructed. One of the Vickers-Armstrong hangars at Hurn near Bournemouth.
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Moments later the delegation reach the home of Mr. Raymond Head, the Superintendent at Somerton Airfield.
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From behind a bush, Luiz (Bill Nagy) watches the car come to a halt outside the house.
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Kitty (Nicola Braithwaite) sits on her tricycle as her sister Anne (Diana Day) tells Alexander that their father is over at the big hanger.
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Fred (Fella Edmonds) checks a sign as he, Uncle George (Peter Dyneley) and his friend John (Michael Maguire) head for Heathfield, an old airfield near Somerton.
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Flight Sergeant Watkins (Vincent Ball) approaches Fred and John before aircraft expert George recognises him when he appears from the caravan pitched on No Man's Land between Heathfield and Somerton.
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Returning to tell Grant that the people with the caravan won't move on, Watkins overhears him tell fellow revolutionaries Luiz and Goliath (John Stirling) that he has the pilot just where he wants him.
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Uncle George, Fred and John drive over to see Mr. Head.
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Asking of he and John can go on the ZO9's test flight, Raymond Head (Ballard Berkeley) tells Fred "Not this time".
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Annoyed at being looked after by a girl, John and Fred agree to take Anne back to the caravan.
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While waiting for her sister, Kitty sees Grant run from the caravan.
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Fred, John and Anne arrive to be told about the Man before they all run over to the caravan to find that it's been ransacked.
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Grant looks at his watch as he and Goliath wait for the Fragovinian delegation.
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After Anne discovers that John and Fred are Air Cadets just like her, they and Kitty make their way to the old hangar to investigate.
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Getting out of the Land Rover, the Children run over to the hanger before the Fragovinians drive past. Vickers-Armstrongs took over some of the former BOAC hangars at Hurn Airport in 1951.
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The Revolutionaries ambush the Fragovinians and Impostors drive away in their Humber.
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Fred, John, Anne and Kitty hide behind one of the old hangar's doors as the Revolutionaries approach with their prisoners.
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Grant and Goliath turn when Kitty sneezes before marching the Fragovinians onward and locking them in a store room
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Watkins wrestles Grant to the ground as the Youngsters escape in the Land Rover.
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Dressed in their uniforms the following morning, Fred, John, Anne and Kitty watch from the Control Tower as ZO9's test flight begins. The Control Tower at Hurn.
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Fragovinian impostors Zasso (Frank Hawkins), Vint (Thomas Heathcote) and their Accomplice make plans to kidnap Mr. Head
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Driving to the big hanger in her MG with Kitty sitting beside her, Mrs. Head pulls over when she sees Men stooping over her Husband in front of his car.
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At the big hangar, the young Cadets see Watkins pulled from a Dormobile by Goliath when they arrive with Grant. Hurn Airport in Hampshire to the north of Bournemouth.
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Watkins is led into ZO9 as Fred, John, Anne hide behind a set of steps. Inside the Vickers-Armstrong facility at Hurn in Hampshire.
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With the unconscious Uncle George on board and the Cadets managing to stow away, a tractor is attached and the aircraft is towed from the hangar. The aircraft is registration number CF-TGO a Vickers 724 Viscount ordered for Trans-Canada Air Lines.
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Alerted by Kitty, who escaped from the ambush on the road, the RAF send Military Policemen (Including Anthony Bate) to the hangar who arrive to find the ZO9 missing. Looking out from the Vickers-Armstrong hangar at Hurn near Bournemouth.
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As the ZO9 heads for Tunisia, planes are scrambled to intercept.
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Parachuting from the plane over Elba, Fred and Anne make their way to the local RAF base.
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Back in England, and the Fragovinian Delegation are freed and the Kidnappers are thwarted. the Vickers-Armstrong hangar at Hurn near Bournemouth in Hampshire.