Flight from Folly (1945)
May 21, 1945Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

Hugh Sinclair
Clinton Gray

Pat Kirkwood
Sue Brown

Sydney Howard
Dr Wylie

Marian Spencer
Harriet

Tamara Desni
Nina

A.E. Matthews
Neville

Jean Gillie
Millicent

Leslie Bradley
Bomber

Charles Goldner
Ramon

Edmundo Ros
Self

Alicja Halama
Speciality

Czeslaw Konarski
Speciality

Herbert Mason
Director

Basil Woon
Screenplay

Lesley Storm
Screenplay

Katherine Strueby
Screenplay
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Flight from Folly is a 1945 British musical comedy film directed and produced by Herbert Mason, in his last directorial credit before moving onto production, for Warner Bros. The cast includes Pat Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair and Tamara Desni and with music from Edmundo Ros and the Rumba Band. An unemployed showgirl impersonates a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after a composer and playwright abandoned by his Russian wife. The story was written by Lesley Storm, Katherine Strueby and Edmund Goulding. The film was distributed by Warner Brothers and First National Pictures.
Kirkwood had appeared in minor roles in four films between 1938 and 1940 before focussing her career on the West End stage, where she had become a major star during the war years. Flight from Folly was designed to give Kirkwood her first starring screen role, with the hope of breaking her out as a big-name film attraction.
Flight from Folly was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1945.
The film is currently missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's 75 Most Wanted lost films.