

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

Stuart Whitman
Orvil Newton

Sarah Miles
Patricia Rawnsley

James Fox
Richard Mays

Alberto Sordi
Count Emilio Ponticelli

Robert Morley
Lord Rawnsley

Gert Fröbe
Colonel Manfred von Holstein

Jean-Pierre Cassel
Pierre Dubois

Eric Sykes
Courtney

Red Skelton
The Neanderthal Man

Terry-Thomas
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage

Flora Robson
Mother Superior

Karl Michael Vogler
Captain Rumpelstoss

Sam Wanamaker
George Gruber

Maurice Denham
Trawler Skipper

Gordon Jackson
MacDougal

John Le Mesurier
French Painter

James Robertson Justice
Narrator

Ferdy Mayne
French Official

Benny Hill
Fire Chief Perkins

Millicent Martin
Airline Hostess
Ken Annakin
Ken Annakin, Jack Davies
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