Trivia

Although the flying scenes were filmed at Wolverhampton, practice for the single-engine landing was carried out at Lydd Ferryfield in Kent (now London Ashford Airport). Filming was not without problems and on 15 May 1956 the aircraft overshot the runway, causing quite extensive damage to the nose and wing sections.

The first Ealing Studios production after the company left its Ealing site, the movie was made at MGM-British at Borehamwood. The famous "Ealing Studios" logo was changed to "Ealing Films". The film was also the first Ealing film to be released by MGM rather than Rank Film Distributors, marking a move from Rank's Odeon and Gaumont circuit to the rival ABC circuit, which MGM was aligned with.

The aircraft is a Bristol Type 170 Freighter Mk 21 (upgraded from Mk I with more-powerful engines about 1953), registered at the time of the film as G-AIFV (suggestions elsewhere that it was a MkIIA are incorrect, as all Mk II aircraft were passenger-only variants with no big nose-doors). As airframe no. 12781, it was first registered on 11 October 1946, then sold to Indian airline Dalmia Jain on 4 December 1946 as VT-CID, before being sold on to India National Airlines on 27 October 1947. It served with Silver City Airways of UK from 19 June 1953. After being repaired following the accident during filming, it returned to Silver City Airways and during 1957 carried the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation badge on its fin. It was named 'City of Manchester' in November 1958 but was withdrawn and scrapped at Lydd in May 1962.

Final film of Esme Easterbrook.

Ann Johnson's debut.