Reach for the Sky

RAF pilot Douglas Bader (Kenneth More), hospitalized after a reckless crash and having lost the use of both legs, sneaks from his bed, found by nurse Brace (Dorothy Alison), who hears his griping then lays down some law, in the 1956 bio-pic Reach For The Sky.

1931, Reading, England, RAF pilots Bader (Kenneth More) and Sanderson (Lyndon Brook) are goaded by civilian fliers (Jack Taylor, Jeremy Longhurst) to disobey orders, Alexander Knox the surgeon in the ensuing scene, in director Lewis Gilbert's bio-pic Reach For The Sky, 1956.

End of the credits and the opening, introducing Kenneth More, playing the lead in the life story of RAF pilot Douglas Bader, narration by Lyndon Brook as colleague Sanderson, in director Lewis Gilbert's Reach For The Sky, 1956, from the book by Paul Brickhill.