One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) is the fourth collaboration between the British writer-director-producer team of Powell & Pressburger and the first film they made under the banner of The Archers.

The movie received two Academy Award nominations, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, and Ronald Neame and C.C. Stevens for [[Academy Award for Visual Effects|Best Effects, Special Effects ]].

The title is taken from the often heard news reports after a bombing raid: "One (or more usually, quite a few more) of our aircraft is missing".

Much of the outdoor sequences set in the Netherlands were shot in Boston in Lincolnshire, with many of the town's landmarks visible.

Notable in that there is no scored music, only natural sounds that would be heard by the characters.

Synopsis

An RAF bomber crew is forced to bail out over the Netherlands. The film tells the story of how the Dutch help the crew despite the dangers. A reversal of the plot in their previous film, Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941), here it is the British trying to escape.

External links

• One of our Aircraft... reviews and articles at the Powell & Pressburger Pages

1942 films | British films | World War II films made in wartime | Films by Powell and Pressburger