aka Spitfire.
"I want to build a fighter, the fastest and deadliest plane in the sky."
R.J. Mitchell (Leslie Howard) is an idealistic plane designer with dreams conquering the air. Only not everyone shares his desires. Geoffrey Crisp (David Niven), relates his story and that of the pinnicle of his design theories, the spitfire fighter plane.
This fictionalised account of Mitchell's life was Howards last on screen role, and very much a propaganda film, to bolster Britain's flagging morale, and as such plays a little fast and loose with chronology as well as the facts. But what the hey, we were at war and needed to win. Spitfire, the US version of the film was a re-edit, bolstering Niven's onscreen prescence.
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