| They Flew Alone | |
| Director: | Herbert Wilcox |
| Producer: | Herbert Wilcox |
| Story: | Viscount Castlerosse |
| Screenplay: | Miles Malleson |
| Studio: | Herbert Wilcox Productions |
| Starring: | Anna Neagle Robert Newton Edward Chapman |
| Music: | William Alwyn |
| Cinematography: | Mutz Greenbaum |
| Editing: | Geoffrey Foot |
| Distributor: | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Runtime: | 103 minutes (UK) 94 minutes (US) |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
They Flew Alone (released in the US as Wings and the Woman) is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman.[1] [2] It was distributed in the UK and the US by RKO Radio Pictures.
The film chronicles the life of Amy Johnson, the British pilot who had gained world attention in the 1930s for her exploits, among them two solo record flights from London to Cape Town in South Africa, and who had joined the Air Transport Auxiliary at the outbreak of the Second World War. It was intended to be both a film honouring Johnson, who had died in 1941 during a ferry flight of an Airspeed Oxford, and a propaganda call to arms at the height of the war years.