Flying Fifty-Five

72 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Flying Fifty-Five is a 1939 British sports-drama film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Derrick De Marney, Nancy Burne, Marius Goring, John Warwick and Peter Gawthorne.^[1] It was made by Admiral Films at Welwyn Studios.^[2] The film is based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace which had previously been made into a 1924 silent film The Flying Fifty-Five.^[3]

Plot

After being disinherited by his wealthy father, an amateur jockey, Bill Urquhart goes to work under an assumed name (Bill Hart) at a rural racing stables owned and run by Stella Barrington and her drunken brother, Charles, who is an old friend of Bill's. Confusion arises when Bill is mistakenly reported to have been murdered.

Partial cast

• Derrick De Marney as Bill Urquhart
• Nancy Burne as Stella Barrington
• Marius Goring as Charles Barrington
• John Warwick as Jebson
• Peter Gawthorne as Jonas Urquhart
• D. A. Clarke-Smith as Jacques Gregory
• Amy Veness as Aunt Eliza
• Ronald Shiner as Scrubby Oaks
• Billy Bray as Cheerful
• Francesca Bahrle as Clare
• Terry-Thomas as Young man
• Norman Pierce as Creditor
• Basil McGrail as Jockey

See also

• The Flying Fifty-Five (1924)
• List of films about horse racing

References

Bibliography

• Wood, Linda. British Films 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• Flying Fifty-Five at AllMovie
• Flying Fifty-Five at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
• Flying Fifty-Five at IMDb