[dramatic music] [engine whirring]

Description: Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.

Cast:
Brian MacLean: James Cagney
Johnny Dutton: Dennis Morgan
Emily Foster: Brenda Marshall
Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy: Alan Hale
Blimp Lebec: George Tobias
Scrounger Harris: Reginald Gardiner
Air Marshal W. A. Bishop: W.A. Bishop
Commanding Officer: Ellis Irving
Louis 'Alabama' Prentiss: Russell Arms
Group Captain: Paul Cavanagh
Sam 'Store-Teeth' Morrison: Clem Bevans
Foster: J.M. Kerrigan
Dr. Neville: J. Farrell MacDonald
Fyffe: Patrick O'Moore
Carmichael: Morton Lowry
Chief Flying Instructor: Owen Cathcart-Jones
President of Court-Martial: Frederick Worlock
Officer: Anthony Marsh
Blonde: Lucia Carroll
Playboy: Rafael Alcayde
Popcorn Kearns: Benny Baker
Kingsley: Hardie Albright
Mason: Ray Walker
Supintendent Nolan: Charles Halton
Provost Marshal: Louis Jean Heydt
Student Pilot: Tod Andrews
Willie: Willie Fung
Blake: Carl Harbord
Flying Instructor: Will Morgan
Canadian: Lane Allan
L.A.C. Grove - Texan: Sam Ault
Gilbert: Barry Bernard
Wing Commander: Wing Commander Brian
Duty Officer: Larry Williams
Sergeant Pilot: James Bush
Undetermined Secondary Role: Jack Hyde
Instructor: Don Dillaway
French Canadian: Charles De Ravenne
Flight Lieutenant: Leslie Denison
Bartender: Tom Dugan
Sergeant-Major: Sergeant-Major Spratt
Flying Officer: Flying Officer Evans
Flight Lt. Holt: Gerald Fielding
Drill Sergeant: Pat Flaherty
Colby: John Gallaudet
Squadron Leader: Squadron Leader Greene
Aircraftsman: Herbert Gunn
Nightclub Waiter: Robert Haines
Red Cross Collector: Winifred Harris
Cranbrook: John Hartley
Man Entering Hotel: Stuart Holmes
Hunter - RCAF Applicant: J. Anthony Hughes
Chief Ground Instructor: Charles Irwin
Aircraftsman Lawrence: John Kellogg
Indian at Foster's: William Wilkerson
Mr. Burton - RCAF Applicant: Harry Lewis
Winston S. Churchill: Miles Mander
Man Buying Dog Team: Edward McNamara
Officer at Court-Martial Board: Harold Miller
Aircraftsman Hodges: Ray Montgomery
Orderly: Gavin Muir
Mechanic: Billy Wayne
News Vendor: George Ovey
German Pilot: Henry Rowland
Piano Player: Harry Seymour
Chateau Laurier Bellboy: Charles Smith
Indian: James Stevens
Chateau Laurier Desk Clerk: Emmett Vogan
Flyer in Nightclub: Russell Wade
Flight Lt. Wood: Frank Wilcox
Liaison Officer: Flying Officer Willis

Written by: Arthur T. Horman, Roland Gillett, Richard Macaulay

Director: Michael Curtiz

Production: Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date: 21 Feb 1942