A tale of real-life British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia, who would later mysteriously disappear.
Acting
Harriet Walter carries this entire film on her very capable shoulders.
Production
They actually built flyable replicas of her rickety de Havilland Gipsy Moth.
Director
Nat Crosby
Harriet Walter
Amy Johnson
Stephanie Cole
Cis Johnson
Clive Francis
Jim Mollinson
George A. Cooper
Will Johnson
Robert Pugh
Jack Humphreys
Patrick Troughton
Lord Rothermere
John Grillo
Bell
Roger Hammond
Sir Sefton Brancker
Denys Hawthorne
Col. Francis Shelmerdine
Richard Durden
Captain Bill Hope
Douglas Reith
Jimmy Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patrick Troughton plays Lord Rothermere here — yes, THAT Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor Who, slumming it as a newspaper baron.
Amy Johnson's actual plane wreckage was never found; this TV movie arrived during a 1980s wave of feminist historical recovery that also resurrected Gertrude Bell and Nancy Wake.
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