They Flew Alone
British DVD cover from 2010
Directed by	Herbert Wilcox
Screenplay by	Miles Malleson
Story by	Viscount Castlerosse
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Starring	Anna Neagle Robert Newton Edward Chapman
Cinematography	Mutz Greenbaum
Edited by	Geoffrey Foot
Music by	William Alwyn
Production company	Herbert Wilcox Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	29 June 1942 (1942-06-29) (UK) 18 September 1942 (1942-09-18) (US)
Running time	103 minutes (UK) 94 minutes (US)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

They Flew Alone (released in the US as Wings and the Woman) is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman.^[1][2] It was distributed in the UK and the US by RKO Radio Pictures.

Plot

The film chronicles the life of Amy Johnson, the British pilot who had gained world attention in the 1930s for her exploits, among them two solo record flights from London to Cape Town in South Africa, and who had joined the Air Transport Auxiliary at the outbreak of the Second World War. It was intended to be both a film honouring Johnson, who had died in 1941 during a ferry flight of an Airspeed Oxford, and a propaganda call to arms at the height of the war years.

Cast