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    Christopher Silvester on Cinema

    Sep 30, 2021 3 minutes

    AMONG THE RICH HARVEST of British war films, One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) is a particular favourite of mine. Now available in a new Blu-ray format from the BFI at £17.99, it is not ranked high in the canon of films written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and it pales alongside the expressionist glories that were to come from this duo.

    But, as Ian Christie writes in his booklet notes, “the upside of such a modest reputation may be that

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