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Great Moments in Aviation is a 1994 romantic drama film, set on a 1950s
passenger liner. The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young
Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart
(Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to England. Stewart is pursued by his
nemesis Rex Goodyear (John Hurt), and the group are supported by Dr
Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and Miss Gwendolyn Quim (Dorothy Tutin),
retired missionaries who become lovers during the voyage.
The film was written by Jeanette Winterson, directed by Beeban Kidron
and produced by Phillippa Gregory, the same creative team that
collaborated on Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in 1990.
Winterson intended the screenplay to be reminiscent of a fairytale, and
was unhappy at being asked to write a new ending for its American
release.
The film was shown at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and broadcast on
British television in 1995. Although originally intended for theatrical
release, it failed to find a theatrical distributor, and was released
straight to video in the United States in 1997 under the title Shades of
Fear. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics, and
while the lesbian sub-plot in particular was generally well received,
Winterson's scripting was a focal point of criticism.
Plot
Set in 1957, Great Moments in Aviation follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie
Ayola), a young Caribbean woman from Grenada who embarks on a cruise to
England with the intention of becoming an aviator. Upon boarding the
ship, Gabriel finds herself assigned shared sleeping quarters with
fellow passenger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce). The rest of the ship's
passengers, including missionaries Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and
Gwendolyne Quim (Dorothy Tutin) assume the two are married, and when
Professor Rex Goodyear (John Hurt) appears to recognise Duncan as his
old acquaintance Alasdair Birch, Duncan fosters the assumption to
maintain his cover. It transpires that Duncan is a forger, who many
years ago stole a Titian painting from Goodyear and had an affair with
his wife. Goodyear believes that his painting is on board the ship, and
leads Gabriel to believe that Duncan was responsible for his wife's
death. She is furious with Duncan for lying to her, but the two go on to
reconcile and later make love. Their romance is complicated by the fact
Gabriel professes to have a husband waiting for her in England. She
explains that he has been there for two years working, and she is
joining him so that she can fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a
pilot — inspired by her grandfather Thomas (Oliver Samuels) who flew off
into a storm and never came home. They begin a relationship nonetheless,
supported by Angela and Gwendolyne, who also come to realise that they
have feelings for one another. They each confess to having secretly been
in love with the other for years, and become lovers, vowing to live
together in their retirement. It comes to light that the death of
Goodyear's wife was an accident, caused as he and Duncan fought over
her. Duncan returns his painting, and goes on to burn all his forged
documents and papers in front of Gabriel. She confesses that her
marriage to Michael is over, and she and Duncan resolve to begin a life
together. The film ends with Gabriel's grandmother Vesuvia (Carmen
Munroe) reading her family a letter from England, informing them that
Gabriel and Duncan are happy together, and are expecting a child. As the
family express their delight, Gabriel flies overhead, having finally
attained her pilot licence and become an aviator.
Cast
[John Hurt plays Rex Goodyear, a non-typical villain who "may not be a
villain at all".]
- Rakie Ayola as Gabriel Angel
- Jonathan Pryce as Duncan Stewart
- John Hurt as Professor Rex Goodyear
- Vanessa Redgrave as Doctor Angela Bead
- Dorothy Tutin as Miss Gwendolyne Quim
- Carmen Munroe as Vesuvia
- Oliver Samuels as Thomas
- David Harewood as Steward
Production
[Jonathan Pryce stars as Duncan Stewart: "a forger, a fantasist, a most
compelling man."] Great Moments in Aviation was written by Jeanette
Winterson, directed by Beeban Kidron and produced by Phillippa Giles,
the same creative team who, in 1990, adapted Winterson's novel Oranges
Are Not the Only Fruit for television. Giles, for whom Great Moments
was her first feature film, believes that it was the success of Oranges
which lead the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to approve the
film so easily. The screenplay is inspired by the emigration story of
the mother of actress Vicky Licorish, a close friend of Winterson. It
is adapted from a short story Winterson wrote entitled "Atlantic
Crossing", published in 1999 in her anthology The World and Other
Places. The central themes of the story are "race, Hemingway,
colonialism, love, lust, the '50s", adapted into the
screenplay in a manner Winterson intended to be reminiscent of a
fairytale. She ascribes the roles of hero and heroine to Duncan and
Gabriel, fairy godmothers to Miss Quim and Dr Bead, and non-archetypal
villain to Rex Goodyear. Setting the film on a passenger liner, with
brief scenes in Gabriel's native Grenada were intended to contribute
towards this fairytale atmosphere, with Winterson explaining that the
opening sequence in the Caribbean is "designed to draw the audience out
of the world of their own concerns and into a world whose customs are
strange. In the new world, objects are unfamiliar and events do not
follow the usual rules. The coincidence of colour and language, each
more vivid than normal, pull the viewer forward with fairytale
immediacy." Of the passenger liner aspect, she explains that it
provides the film with: "a sealed and contained world with its own
identity and rituals, at once both recognisable and odd. Fairytale never
leaves the reader in a familiar spot, we are whisked away to a wood or a
lake or a castle or an island, each a law unto itself made all the more
uncomfortable because it isn't as weird as, say, planet Mars. We think
we will be able to cope just by using out usual tool kit, how
disconcerting it is when we can't."
The film originally had a different ending to the one later released in
America under the title Shades of Fear. Miramax co-founder Harvey
Weinstein requested that the ending be reworked prior to distribution,
and Winterson was highly unhappy at being asked to write an additional
conclusionary scene. Winterson's preferred ending sees Rex Goodyear
burn the painting he believes to be fraudulent, only to discover he
actually had the genuine item in his possession all along, and has now
destroyed it. This ties in with the major theme of the film in
Winterson's eyes, whereby "Duncan, Gabriel, Miss Bead and Miss Quim all
find something valuable where they least expected it, Rex Goodyear finds
that the things we value are very often worthless." Winterson has
called Weinstein "a bully who knows the gentle touch", referring to
the new ending as "the most expensive words I will ever write".
While she believes that the new ending is satisfying, she feels the film
has lost some dimensions which were important to her and concludes: "It
is a good movie but it is not the movie I thought we could make. I
do like Great Moments but there is another film in there somewhere that
has got lost."
Of the starring cast, Pryce, Hurt, Redgrave and Tutin were already
established screen actors, while Ayola had previously only acted
theatrically. She appraised of her screen debut: "it was a wonderful
experience for me to be appearing alongside so many established names.
It was very exciting although I must admit at first I was a bit daunted
by the prospect." The film featured several minor black characters,
either as members of Gabriel's family, or as workers aboard the ship.
When these roles were cast, complaints were made by black members of the
British actors' union to the BBC and the Department of Employment at
having been "passed over" in favour of overseas artists. The film
was shot from 23 September to 6 November 1992. It was funded in the
most part by the BBC, though a quarter of the budget came from the
American Miramax. While Kidron had previously come to dislike
directing for major studios when filming My Cousin Vinny for Fox, she
found the low budget of Great Moments in Aviation "just as horrendous a
compromise". Though originally intended for theatrical release,
the film failed to find theatrical distribution. It was first
screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994, then broadcast in
Britain on BBC Two on 11 November 1995. It was released on video in
the United States under the alternate title Shades of Fear two years
later, on 11 November 1997.
Reception
[Jeanette Winterson's screenplay attracted negative reviews from
critics.] The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics.
Thomas Sutcliffe for The Independent writes that: "while flight is the
sustaining theme, the film never soars. The characterisation is Cluedo
with pretensions, and the dialogue suspends the actors in that ungainly,
undignified dangle which you associate with stage flying, the wires
robbing them of all powers of independent movement." While he
describes the scene which culminates the lesbian storyline as
"radiant" and "beautifully acted by Vanessa Redgrave and Dorothy
Tutin", he opines of the acting in general that "for the most part,
these people are simply Winterson's puppets, jerked around by the
symbolic demands of the plot." He deems Kidron's directing "a kind
of surrender, dutifully supplying visual equivalents for Winterson's
sterile symmetries but despairing of any greater vivacity", and is
particularly critical of Winterson's screenplay, noting that:
"everything unrolls at the same stately pace, a religious procession
bearing the reliquaries of Winterson's prose. It's as though the author
thinks every word is infinitely precious. She's right, though perhaps
not in the way she imagines." Variety's David Rooney agrees the
film's coming-out scene is a "potential jewel" and "captivatingly
played", however, in line with Sutcliffe's criticisms, opines that
the film's pacing means that "the scene is lobbed in and robbed of its
impact". He summarises the film as "a willfully theatrical,
sporadically magical romantic comedy embracing three barely compatible
narrative strands, not one of which ever gets full flight
clearance". Rooney deems the film "Damaged beyond repair by a
mannered scripting style and evident recutting", and opines that
"Jeanette Winterson's preposterous dialogue and comic mistiming serves
up more misses than hits". Of the film's major themes, he writes
that: "Questions about the line between truth and falsehood, genuine and
fake, are too flimsily voiced to mean much. Likewise, the intro of race
issues in the closing voiceover only makes the haphazard mix even more
lumpy". [Vanessa Redgrave's performance as Angela Bead in the
lesbian sub-plot was well received.] More positively, Rooney praise Remi
Adefarasin's cinematography and Rachel Portman's soundtrack, as well as
Ayola's acting, writing: "In the film's most naturalistic turn, Ayola is
a constant pleasure to watch. Unforced and appealing, she often succeeds
in pulling the fanciful fireworks momentarily back down to Earth."
The Boston Herald's Paul Sherman agrees that Ayola gives "a winning
performance", and deems the film "generally charming", though is
critical of Miramax's decision to hold the film's release back until
1997, change its title, and market it as a mystery rather than a
romantic comedy-drama. Lorien Haynes, writing for the Radio Times,
also praises the acting in the film, however is critical of the
cross-genre approach, opining: "Unfortunately, the mixture of romance
and mystery doesn't work and even the combined acting talents of Vanessa
Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, John Hurt and Dorothy Tutin can't save
it." She deems the film "disappointing", and writes that it
fails to match the success of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Gilbert Gerard for The Independent selected the film as recommended
viewing upon its BBC Two television debut, giving the mixed review: "So
much acting talent, so little substance to play with - but the 1950s are
authentically enough evoked."
David Bleiler is more positive about the film, writing in his TLA Video
& DVD Guide that it "isn't some third-rate, quick-paycheck hack job
mystery which the advertising suggests." He calls it "an unusual,
rewarding drama Well-written by Jeanette Winterson and directed
with just the right amount of sensitivity and humor by Kidron". Bleiler
states that the cast are "stellar", Ayola is "radiant", and the
revelatory scene between Angela and Gwendolyne is "wonderful",
asserting: "Although slight, this is a perfect film for a nice, quiet
evening at home". Alison Darren in her Lesbian film guide is also
positive, asserting that: "Great Moments in Aviation is a little gem of
a British film". She describes the resolution of the lesbian
storyline as "a golden scene, beautifully photographed and exceptionally
well paced", and asserts that "For women of a certain age, this may
be the most heart-rending (not to say, inspirational) depiction of a
coming-out moment ever seen on screen. Whimsical, comic, dramatic and
gentle."
Soundtrack
While the soundtrack to Great Moments in Aviation was not released
independently, nine tracks from the film appear on the album "A
Pyromaniac's Love Story", which also features music from the film of the
same name and Ethan Frome. Variety magazine's David Rooney praised
Rachel Portman's composition as "stirring".
Notes
References
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Category:1993 films Category:British films Category:1990s drama films
Category:Romantic drama films Category:English-language films
Category:Films set in the 1950s Category:Miramax films Category:British
LGBT-related films Category:Aviation films
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. p. xii.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. pp. x-xi.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. pp. x-xi.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. p. xi.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. p. xiv.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. p. 67.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. p. xiii.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. p. xiii.
Winterson, Jeanette. Great Moments in Aviation. pp. xiv-xv.
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Great Moments in Aviation is a 1994 British romantic drama film set on a
1950s passenger liner. The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a
young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart
(Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to England. Stewart is pursued by his
nemesis Rex Goodyear (John Hurt), and the group are supported by Dr
Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and Miss Gwendolyn Quim (Dorothy Tutin),
retired missionaries who become lovers during the voyage.
The film was written by Jeanette Winterson, directed by Beeban Kidron
and produced by Phillippa Gregory, the same creative team that
collaborated on Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in 1990.
Winterson intended the screenplay to be reminiscent of a fairy tale, and
was unhappy at being asked to write a new ending for its American
release.
The film was shown at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and broadcast on
British television in 1995. Although originally intended for theatrical
release, it failed to find a theatrical distributor, and was released
straight to video in the United States in 1997 under the title Shades of
Fear. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics, and
while the lesbian sub-plot in particular was generally well received,
Winterson's scripting was a focal point of criticism.
Plot
Set in 1957, Great Moments in Aviation follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie
Ayola), a young Caribbean woman from Grenada who embarks on a cruise to
England with the intention of becoming an aviator. Upon boarding the
ship, Gabriel finds herself assigned shared sleeping quarters with
fellow passenger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce). The rest of the ship's
passengers, including missionaries Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and
Gwendolyne Quim (Dorothy Tutin) assume the two are married, and when
Professor Rex Goodyear (John Hurt) appears to recognise Duncan as his
old acquaintance Alasdair Birch, Duncan fosters the assumption to
maintain his cover. It transpires that Duncan is a forger, who many
years ago stole a Titian painting from Goodyear and had an affair with
his wife. Goodyear believes that his painting is on board the ship, and
leads Gabriel to believe that Duncan was responsible for his wife's
death. She is furious with Duncan for lying to her, but the two go on to
reconcile and later make love. Their romance is complicated by the fact
Gabriel professes to have a husband waiting for her in England. She
explains that he has been there for two years working, and she is
joining him so that she can fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a
pilot — inspired by her grandfather Thomas (Oliver Samuels) who flew off
into a storm and never came home. They begin a relationship nonetheless,
supported by Angela and Gwendolyne, who also come to realise that they
have feelings for one another. They each confess to having secretly been
in love with the other for years, and become lovers, vowing to live
together in their retirement. It comes to light that the death of
Goodyear's wife was an accident, caused as he and Duncan fought over
her. Duncan returns his painting, and goes on to burn all his forged
documents and papers in front of Gabriel. She confesses that her
marriage to Michael is over, and she and Duncan resolve to begin a life
together. The film ends with Gabriel's grandmother Vesuvia (Carmen
Munroe) reading her family a letter from England, informing them that
Gabriel and Duncan are happy together, and are expecting a child. As the
family express their delight, Gabriel flies overhead, having finally
attained her pilot licence and become an aviator.
Cast
[John Hurt plays Rex Goodyear, a non-typical villain who "may not be a
villain at all".]
- Rakie Ayola as Gabriel Angel
- Jonathan Pryce as Duncan Stewart
- John Hurt as Professor Rex Goodyear
- Vanessa Redgrave as Doctor Angela Bead
- Dorothy Tutin as Miss Gwendolyne Quim
- Carmen Munroe as Vesuvia
- Oliver Samuels as Thomas
- David Harewood as Steward
Production
[Jonathan Pryce stars as Duncan Stewart: "a forger, a fantasist, a most
compelling man."] Great Moments in Aviation was written by Jeanette
Winterson, directed by Beeban Kidron and produced by Phillippa Giles,
the same creative team who, in 1990, adapted Winterson's novel Oranges
Are Not the Only Fruit for television. Giles, for whom Great Moments
was her first feature film, believes that it was the success of Oranges
which lead the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to approve the
film so easily. The screenplay is inspired by the emigration story of
the mother of actress Vicky Licorish, a close friend of Winterson. It
is adapted from a short story Winterson wrote entitled "Atlantic
Crossing", published in 1999 in her anthology The World and Other
Places. The central themes of the story are "race, Hemingway,
colonialism, love, lust, the '50s", adapted into the
screenplay in a manner Winterson intended to be reminiscent of a
fairytale. She ascribes the roles of hero and heroine to Duncan and
Gabriel, fairy godmothers to Miss Quim and Dr Bead, and non-archetypal
villain to Rex Goodyear. Setting the film on a passenger liner, with
brief scenes in Gabriel's native Grenada were intended to contribute
towards this fairytale atmosphere, with Winterson explaining that the
opening sequence in the Caribbean is "designed to draw the audience out
of the world of their own concerns and into a world whose customs are
strange. In the new world, objects are unfamiliar and events do not
follow the usual rules. The coincidence of colour and language, each
more vivid than normal, pull the viewer forward with fairytale
immediacy." Of the passenger liner aspect, she explains that it
provides the film with: "a sealed and contained world with its own
identity and rituals, at once both recognisable and odd. Fairytale never
leaves the reader in a familiar spot, we are whisked away to a wood or a
lake or a castle or an island, each a law unto itself made all the more
uncomfortable because it isn't as weird as, say, planet Mars. We think
we will be able to cope just by using out usual tool kit, how
disconcerting it is when we can't."
The film originally had a different ending to the one later released in
America under the title Shades of Fear. Miramax co-founder Harvey
Weinstein requested that the ending be reworked prior to distribution,
and Winterson was highly unhappy at being asked to write an additional
conclusionary scene. Winterson's preferred ending sees Rex Goodyear
burn the painting he believes to be fraudulent, only to discover he
actually had the genuine item in his possession all along, and has now
destroyed it. This ties in with the major theme of the film in
Winterson's eyes, whereby "Duncan, Gabriel, Miss Bead and Miss Quim all
find something valuable where they least expected it, Rex Goodyear finds
that the things we value are very often worthless." Winterson has
called Weinstein "a bully who knows the gentle touch", referring to
the new ending as "the most expensive words I will ever write".
While she believes that the new ending is satisfying, she feels the film
has lost some dimensions which were important to her and concludes: "It
is a good movie but it is not the movie I thought we could make. I
do like Great Moments but there is another film in there somewhere that
has got lost."
Of the starring cast, Pryce, Hurt, Redgrave and Tutin were already
established screen actors, while Ayola had previously only acted
theatrically. She appraised of her screen debut: "it was a wonderful
experience for me to be appearing alongside so many established names.
It was very exciting although I must admit at first I was a bit daunted
by the prospect." The film featured several minor black characters,
either as members of Gabriel's family, or as workers aboard the ship.
When these roles were cast, complaints were made by black members of the
British actors' union to the BBC and the Department of Employment at
having been "passed over" in favour of overseas artists. The film
was shot from 23 September to 6 November 1992. It was funded in the
most part by the BBC, though a quarter of the budget came from the
American Miramax. While Kidron had previously come to dislike
directing for major studios when filming My Cousin Vinny for Fox, she
found the low budget of Great Moments in Aviation "just as horrendous a
compromise". Though originally intended for theatrical release,
the film failed to find theatrical distribution. It was first
screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994, then broadcast in
Britain on BBC Two on 11 November 1995. It was released on video in
the United States under the alternative title Shades of Fear two years
later, on 11 November 1997.
Reception
[Jeanette Winterson's screenplay attracted negative reviews from
critics.] The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics.
Thomas Sutcliffe for The Independent writes that: "while flight is the
sustaining theme, the film never soars. The characterisation is Cluedo
with pretensions, and the dialogue suspends the actors in that ungainly,
undignified dangle which you associate with stage flying, the wires
robbing them of all powers of independent movement." While he
describes the scene which culminates the lesbian storyline as
"radiant" and "beautifully acted by Vanessa Redgrave and Dorothy
Tutin", he opines of the acting in general that "for the most part,
these people are simply Winterson's puppets, jerked around by the
symbolic demands of the plot." He deems Kidron's directing "a kind
of surrender, dutifully supplying visual equivalents for Winterson's
sterile symmetries but despairing of any greater vivacity", and is
particularly critical of Winterson's screenplay, noting that:
"everything unrolls at the same stately pace, a religious procession
bearing the reliquaries of Winterson's prose. It's as though the author
thinks every word is infinitely precious. She's right, though perhaps
not in the way she imagines." Variety′s David Rooney agrees the
film's coming-out scene is a "potential jewel" and "captivatingly
played", however, in line with Sutcliffe's criticisms, opines that
the film's pacing means that "the scene is lobbed in and robbed of its
impact". He summarises the film as "a willfully theatrical,
sporadically magical romantic comedy embracing three barely compatible
narrative strands, not one of which ever gets full flight
clearance". Rooney deems the film "Damaged beyond repair by a
mannered scripting style and evident recutting", and opines that
"Jeanette Winterson's preposterous dialogue and comic mistiming serves
up more misses than hits". Of the film's major themes, he writes
that: "Questions about the line between truth and falsehood, genuine and
fake, are too flimsily voiced to mean much. Likewise, the intro of race
issues in the closing voiceover only makes the haphazard mix even more
lumpy". [Vanessa Redgrave's performance as Angela Bead in the
lesbian sub-plot was well received.] More positively, Rooney praise Remi
Adefarasin's cinematography and Rachel Portman's soundtrack, as well as
Ayola's acting, writing: "In the film's most naturalistic turn, Ayola is
a constant pleasure to watch. Unforced and appealing, she often succeeds
in pulling the fanciful fireworks momentarily back down to Earth."
The Boston Herald's Paul Sherman agrees that Ayola gives "a winning
performance", and deems the film "generally charming", though is
critical of Miramax's decision to hold the film's release back until
1997, change its title, and market it as a mystery rather than a
romantic comedy-drama. Lorien Haynes, writing for the Radio Times,
also praises the acting in the film, however is critical of the
cross-genre approach, opining: "Unfortunately, the mixture of romance
and mystery doesn't work and even the combined acting talents of Vanessa
Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, John Hurt and Dorothy Tutin can't save
it." She deems the film "disappointing", and writes that it
fails to match the success of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Gilbert Gerard for The Independent selected the film as recommended
viewing upon its BBC Two television debut, giving the mixed review: "So
much acting talent, so little substance to play with - but the 1950s are
authentically enough evoked."
David Bleiler is more positive about the film, writing in his TLA Video
& DVD Guide that it "isn't some third-rate, quick-paycheck hack job
mystery which the advertising suggests." He calls it "an unusual,
rewarding drama Well-written by Jeanette Winterson and directed
with just the right amount of sensitivity and humor by Kidron". Bleiler
states that the cast are "stellar", Ayola is "radiant", and the
revelatory scene between Angela and Gwendolyne is "wonderful",
asserting: "Although slight, this is a perfect film for a nice, quiet
evening at home". Alison Darren in her Lesbian Film Guide is also
positive, asserting that: "Great Moments in Aviation is a little gem of
a British film". She describes the resolution of the lesbian
storyline as "a golden scene, beautifully photographed and exceptionally
well paced", and asserts that "For women of a certain age, this may
be the most heart-rending (not to say, inspirational) depiction of a
coming-out moment ever seen on screen. Whimsical, comic, dramatic and
gentle."
Soundtrack
While the soundtrack to Great Moments in Aviation was not released
independently, nine tracks from the film appear on the album "A
Pyromaniac's Love Story", which also features music from the film of the
same name and Ethan Frome. Variety magazine's David Rooney praised
Rachel Portman's composition as "stirring".
References
Bibliography
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External links
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Category:1993 films Category:1993 romantic drama films
Category:English-language films Category:British films Category:British
romantic drama films Category:British aviation films Category:British
LGBT-related films Category:Films shot at Pinewood Studios Category:BBC
Films films Category:Films set in 1957 Category:Films set in Grenada
Category:Films directed by Beeban Kidron Category:Films scored by Rachel
Portman Category:Films set on ships Category:1993 drama films
Winterson, Jeanette, Great Moments in Aviation, p. xii.
Winterson, Great Moments in Aviation, pp. x-xi.
Winterson, Great Moments in Aviation, p. xi.
Winterson, Great Moments in Aviation, p. xiv.
Winterson, Great Moments in Aviation, p. 67.
Winterson, Great Moments in Aviation, p. xiii.
Winterson, Great Moments in Aviation, pp. xiv-xv.