The First of the Few
(1942)
Directed by Leslie
Howard this film stars it's director as well as David Niven, Rosamund
John, Roland Culver and Anne Firth. In the inter war period an
aeroplane designer struggles to get his revolutionary new designs
built.
This film has the
uneasy balance of being a WW2 propaganda film as well as a biopic
telling the story the design of the Spitfire. There are a number of
historical inaccuracies both in the addition of David Niven's
character and the way the story is told, largely for propaganda
reasons but there is plenty of truth in the story too. Where the film
does benefit from being made during WW2 is in that it includes a
number of action sequences that are actual footage from real dog
fights.
3/5
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