Tyrone Power

Betty Grable

John Sutton

Reginald Gardiner

Donald Stuart

Ralph Byrd

Richard Fraser

Denis Greene

Bruce Lester

Lester Matthews

Frederick Worlock

Ethel Griffies

Morton Lowry

Gilchrist Stuart

Fortunio Bonanova

James Craven

G.P. Huntley

Stuart Robertson

Dennis Hoey

John Burton

Claud Allister

Howard Davies

Russell Burroughs

Henry King

Bernard Freericks

Roger Heman Sr.

Leo Robin

Alfred Newman

Fred Sersen

Ralph Rainger

Darryl F. Zanuck

Darrell Ware

Barbara McLean

Karl Tunberg

James Basevi

Leon Shamroy

Thomas Little

Richard Day

Travis Banton

Louis F. Edelman

Ronald Neame

Drama

Romance

A Yank in the R.A.F.

20th Century Fox

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Tyrone Power looks great but otherwise this is a rather procedural piece of semi-propaganda depicting the RAF efforts against the Nazis at the start of WWII. In order to preserve neutrality, the USA would deliver planes to the Canadian border where they would be rather unceremoniously towed across the frontier before being flown on to Britain. One such pilot is "Tim Baker" (Power) a man keen to get in on the action. Even more keen when he discovers that his ex-girlfriend "Carol" (Betty Grable) is also in the UK, and he determines to rekindle that relationship, too. She, on the other hand, has had enough of his wastrel ways and is sweet on his boss "Morley" (John Sutton) who lives in a stately pile in Kent (the oldest house in her hometown isn't 30 years old!). There is a bit of chemistry between the pair, and quite a fun supporting effort from Reginald Gardiner but the dialogue is too stodgy and Grable doesn't really get enough screen time in which to stamp her effervescent personality. Plenty of decent action photography - even if much of it is studio-shot, though, and Rathbone/Bruce "Sherlock Holmes" fans might spot an early short appearance from Dennis Hoey ("Lestrade"). Does it's job this, nothing more...

English

A YANK IN THE RAF(1941) Original Theatrical Trailer