Flight of the Doves

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Flight Of The Doves, 1971.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Flight Of The Doves, 1971.

Just fanfare, Ralph Nelson directing, also credited with the lyric as Alph Elson, the music by composer Roy Budd, young stars Jack Wild and Helen Raye romping with local extras and bands, shooting at Phoenix Park in Dublin, in Flight Of The Doves, 1971.

Disguised now in opposite genders, English runaways Finn and Derval (Jack Wild, Helen Raye) have evaded capture again but think they’re done for and will never reach their Irish grandmother, when good fortune strikes, Dorothy McGuire greeting them, near the climax in Flight Of The Doves, 1971.

Jack Wild and Helen Raye as runaway heirs Derval and Finn, directed by Ralph Nelson, arrive for real at Dublin on a ferry from England, while their greedy stepfather (William Rushton) arrives in pursuit at the airport, met by a policeman (Brendan O’Reilly) and the evil uncle “Hawk” (Ron Moody) impersonating a lawyer, in Flight Of The Doves, 1971.

Opening introduces Jack Wild as Finn and Helen Raye as younger sister Derval, their idyll interrupted by their comical mean stepfather whom they call “Uncle” Toby (William Rushton), in director Ralph Nelson’s Flight Of The Doves, 1971, from the story by Walter Macken, co-starring Ron Moody.

Introduced in legal papers in the previous scene as the sole rival to the orphan kid heroes for their grandfather’s legacy, Ron Moody (known for playing Fagin in Oliver!, 1968), appears as night club actor “Hawk” Dove, doing a Jekyll & Hyde routine, early in Flight Of The Doves, 1971.

English runaways Finn and Derval (Jack Wild, Helen Raye) captured by friendly Irish tinkers, Barry Keegan and as his daughter, Dana, the English-born Irish pop singer who had just won the Eurovision Song Contest, her song here by prodigy Roy Budd and Brendan O’Dbuil, in Flight Of The Doves, 1971.