Flight from Folly
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Flight from Folly is a 1945 British musical comedy film directed and produced by Herbert Mason, in his last directorial credit before moving onto production, for Warner Bros.[1] The cast includes Pat Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair and Tamara Desni and with music from Edmundo Ros and the Rumba Band. An unemployed showgirl impersonates a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after a composer and playwright abandoned by his Russian wife. The story was written by Lesley Storm, Katherine Strueby and Edmund Goulding. The film was distributed by Warner Brothers and First National Pictures.
Flight from Folly | |
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Directed by | Herbert Mason |
Written by | Lesley Storm Katherine Strueby Edmund Goulding Basil Woon |
Produced by | Herbert Mason |
Starring | Pat Kirkwood Hugh Sinclair |
Cinematography | Otto Heller |
Music by | Benjamin Frankel Eric Spear Edmundo Ros |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Brothers First National Pictures |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Kirkwood had appeared in minor roles in four films between 1938 and 1940 before focussing her career on the West End stage, where she had become a major star during the war years. Flight from Folly was designed to give Kirkwood her first starring screen role, with the hope of breaking her out as a big-name film attraction.
Flight from Folly was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1945.
The film is currently missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's 75 Most Wanted lost films.[2]