"The trouble with these international affairs is they attract foreigners."It's 1910 and a British newspaper organises an air race, from London to Paris. Pilots arrive from around the world, each with different reasons, and different ways, to win. From the German military, an English cad, through to a broke American barnstormer, and many more. Causing trouble is the suffragette daughter of the newspaper owner Patricia Rawnsley (Sarah Miles), who is being romanced by Richard Mays (James Fox), but American Orvil Newton (Stuart Whitman) has caught her eye.
Packed through with all the stars it could cram into the flick, this is a mainstream comedy, that could ave easily crash landed, but manages to maintain a level flight and entertainment, with plenty of slapstick, villains (Terry Thomas, and Eric Sykes), and racial stereotypes, (pompous German's, hot-headed Italians, womanising French, and caddish Englishmen).
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