PCASUK #WATCHPARTY! FOR A BUDGET of just £139,360 about £3,400.00 today, Aubrey Baring
Productions got a LOT of film for their money, plus a very good cast!
'Cone of Silence' aka 'Trouble In The Sky', currently LIVE at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE as our latest 'Watch-Party' post, is a 1960 British drama film
that was directed by Charles Frend and starred Michael Craig, Peter
Cushing, George Sanders, and Bernard Lee. Quite a big step away from
what had occupied Cushing for the past four years at Hammer films, the
role of Captain Clive Judd, gives us a view of his range we had
not see for sometime. The story centres around an investigation into a
series of crashes involving the fictional 'Atlas Aviation Phoenix'
jetliner
SHOT AT SHEPPERTON STUDIOS, budget
constraints led to the production using some miniatures to depict
airfields and aircraft, although principal photography took place at
Filton Airport in North Bristol, UK with the cooperation of the Bristol
Siddeley Engines Ltd. 'Cone of Silence' is loosely based on 1952 plane
crash in Rome and subsequent investigations into the structural
integrity of the de Havilland Comet airliner. . and how even the
highest skilled of people can sometimes get it all very wrong! Still
awaiting a blu ray release, this is a film that would look quite special
in monochrome. . . as would many of Cushing's black and white feature
films from this period... and why the recent Indicator blu ray release
of 'Time Without Pity' looks so impressive! 😀 - Marcus
