Continuity mistake: When the German colonel crash lands in the Channel, he first hangs directly under his upside-down plane before he has to let go, and the plane zooms in a straight line away from him. But as he resurfaces in the foreground, the plane comes in from the background's left before landing in the water.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Ken Annakin
Starring: James Fox, Sarah Miles, Stuart Whitman, Alberto Sordi
English hero John Mays wins the race but only because the American hero Orvil Newton performs a daring mid air rescue of the Italian pilot, Pierre Dubois in front of the Eifel Tower.Mays agrees to share the prize and it seems Orvil and Mays share the girl too.
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More mistakes in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Count Emilio Ponticelli: Like-a Caesar, we go to England.
Trivia: The sequence where the aeroplane lands on a train was shot on the Bedford-Hitchin railway line, which was closed in 1964.