The Way to the Stars

The story

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.

Cast

M Michael RedgraveFlight Lt. David Archdale J John MillsPilot Officer Peter Penrose R Rosamund JohnMiss Todd D Douglass MontgomeryJohnny Hollis R Renée AshersonIris Winterton S Stanley HollowayMr. Palmer B Basil Radford'Tiny' Williams F Felix AylmerRev. Charles Moss B Bonar ColleanoJoe Friselli J Joyce CareyMiss Winterton T Trevor HowardSquadron Leader Carter N Nicholas StuartColonel Rogers (as Tryon Nichol)

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B Bill OwenSgt. 'Nobby' Clarke G Grant MillerWally Becker J Jean SimmonsA Singer J Johnnie SchofieldJones C Charles VictorCorporal Fitter D David Tomlinson'Prune' Parsons H Hartley PowerColonel Page V Vida HopeElsie H Hugh Dempster'Tinker' Bell C Charles FarrellAmerican Orderly A Anthony DawsonBertie Steen B Bill LoganRadio Operator J John HowardShelter Officer M Murray MathesonJoe Lawson J John McLaren'Cheerio' Chester J Jacqueline ClarkeWaitress A Alf GoddardPT Instructor C Caven WatsonRAF Corporal S Sydney BensonFred P Peter CotesAircraftsman A Ann WiltonSchoolmistress