| School for Secrets | |
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| Directed by | Peter Ustinov |
| Screenplay by | Peter Ustinov |
| Produced by | George H. Brown Peter Ustinov |
| Starring | Ralph Richardson Raymond Huntley John Laurie |
| Cinematography | Jack Hildyard |
| Edited by | Russell Lloyd |
| Music by | Alan Rawsthorne |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
School for Secrets (also known as Secret Flight) is a 1946 British black-and-white film written and directed by Peter Ustinov and starring Ralph Richardson. In leading supporting roles were David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Finlay Currie, Richard Attenborough, John Laurie and Michael Hordern.[1] Based on a 1942 RAF training film for would-be 'boffins' and developed with the full cooperation of the Air Ministry, the film celebrates the discovery of radar, its discoverers and the enabling culture.[2][3] Produced by Two Cities Films, it was shot at Denham Studios with sets designed by the art director Carmen Dillon.
- ^ "School for Secrets". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
- ^ O'Neill, Esther (October 2006). "BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO FILMS 1945-65: CATHARSIS OR NATIONAL REGENERATION?". Thesis. University of Central Lancashire: 77, 78. S2CID 140789641.
The RAF has gained a reputation during the last few years, not only of being a brilliant warlike organisation, but also of inventing a new language. Among the lesser known words which appeared in the welter of "prangs", "scrambles" and "wizards", was the world "boffin", meaning scientist. Once upon a time a Puffin, a bird with a mournful cry, got crossed with a Baffin, an obsolete service aircraft. Their offspring was a Boffin. This bird bursts with weird and sometimes inopportune ideas, but possesses staggering inventiveness. Its ideas, like its eggs, are conical and unbreakable. You push the unwanted ones away and they just roll back.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Spicer, Andrew (25 July 2003). Typical Men. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781860649318.