Cone of Silence | Full HD Movies For Free | Flick Vault

[@gigikay1734]

Most British films are superb. Thank you.

[@leebritnell2405]

One of my all time favourites.One of the best ever casts.Cushing excellent as bit of a pompous snide.

[@sheristewart3940]

The great George Sanders, may he rest in peace. Thanks Flick Vault for another entertaining and suspenseful picture.

[@royjackson9576]

I watched this movie a couple years ago when it was first uploaded In my opinion, it's an excellent film with a great cast...definitely worth watching it...

[@pikemeredith5604]

For those who remember him, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell was a wonderful actor & family man. He went to Australia to become part of a tv show in the 70's called 'Homicide'. The show originally began in 1964 but underwent changing casts thru the proceeding years. He was very good in it & made the show in 1974 till it ended in 1977. Also Michael Craig went to Australia too & appeared in many shows there, 'GP' being one of them.

[@redblade8160]

Pike Meredith They are only "actors", there is no need to get down on your hands and knees you stinking groveler!

[@tomhaskett5161]

He was good in Catweazle!

[@MarkHenstridge]

Charles"Bud" Tingwell Australian born (NSW) Michael Craig born in India (Pune)

[@george5590]

where they are english ,or Australian

[@leebritnell2405]

But Tingwell was(unintentionally)responsible for bringing Dracula back to life.

[@blodwyndavies6395]

You know this film is going to be good when you see Bernard Lee, Peter Cushing and Gordon Jackson in roles. Thanks for uploading.

[@harryplummer6356]

And George Sanders!

[@MOGGS1942]

Andre Morell, Michael Craig.

[@charliewest1221]

The brilliant George Saunders brought me to this film when I watched the opening segment.

[@peterleslie8326]

yea, iv seen gordon jackson in many movies i like him

[@jimlaguardia8185]

Although the cast is excellent, the star is the jet here. It is difficult in 2021 to explain how this made sense. Commercial jet travel was still a novel, exciting and romantic activity 60 years ago.

[@peterhill8398]

Thank you so much for uploading this film. I really enjoyed it. I am a big fan of aviation films but I admit I had never heard of this one. I did some research after watching this. The fictional 'Phoenix' airliner in this film was played by an Avro Ashton which had previously been used as an engine test-bed by Bristol-Siddeley. The film is based on a novel by David Beaty, a former BOAC pilot. He based the novel on real-life incidents involving the De Havilland Comet airliner. In 1952, a BOAC Comet crashed on take off at Rome airport without loss of life but the aircraft was a write-off. The following year, a Canadian Pacific Airlines Comet crashed on take-off at Karachi airport, Pakistan, killing all 11 people on board. Official inquiries initially ruled both accidents as caused by pilot error but further investigations revealed serious flaws with the Comet's wing profile and engine inlets. Over the next 13 months, there were three more fatal crashes involving Comets with the combined loss of nearly 100 lives. The Comet was found to have major structural defects and the entire fleet of Comets was grounded for four years. A newer, re-designed version, the Comet 2, entered service in 1958.

[@paulbroderick8438]

See my comments, above.

[@sheristewart3940]

Thank you Peter Hill for contributing your knowledge which richly enhances our entertainment experience.

[@simonf8902]

Thank you for this great information. The transition from prop. to jet was never going to be completely smooth. Boeing and Douglas profited tremendously from these pioneering aircraft.

[@crossleydd42]

The AVRO Ashton was the sole successor of the AVRO Tudor, a plane not without its own shortcomings that took a lot time to iron out, in the main. The Tudor was the second jet airliner in the world, behind the Comet, but only beaten by a few weeks.

[@lars-goranwillny42]

Comet 4 in 1958, not Comet 2 🙂

[@jonjones1553]

@1:16:20 that's a beautiful piece of acting by Mr Cushing! Watch his eyes! And it's always a pleasure to watch George Sanders!

[@pambrown8697]

I love both of these actors

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Yes, I see what you mean.

[@blodwyndavies6395]

Wonderful upload Flick Vault. Thanks for going to the trouble to share these great films with us. Majority of cooments are all good but you always get the odd one who seems to have to have a slight moan. Just ignore them as you are doing a great job keeping us Entertained in these difficult times. Thanks again.

[@nighttoremember1981]

What a fabulous film - really enjoyed this

[@alternativefm328]

Great film shows the pressures and ridiculous level responsibility Pilots face

[@philipgior3312]

I remember the Cone of Silence as a device which was used in Get Smart to communicate with someone else so that no one else would overhear you. It didn't really work so well of course because the listener would end up saying 'what?' a lot.

[@freesaxon6835]

Me too

[@16tons30]

I was grossly misled since I anticipated a compilation of the pertinent Get Smart scenes. A case of GREAT EXPECTATIONS frustrated, but the first minutes of this here film are promising, nonetheless

[@BruceAlarie]

thats what i thought of too

[@paulpearce1161]

An absolutely first rate film Terrific cast. Thanks for showing.

[@Super241946]

Another great British triumph!

[@philipgior3312]

Well acted, solid film and currently topical as well. Thanks for the upload.

[@chapender6476]

Excellent film with a great cast including the beautiful Elizabeth Seal xxxx

[@leebritnell2405]

Yes,she was lovely.

[@john1653]

The opening scene...about thirty seconds into that speech I would have interrupted with, "Your lordship, does my learned colleague have a question to put to the captain or does he intend to provide testimony for him in this case? I ask your lordship to instruct the jury to disregard Mr. ______'s remarks since he was not present on the aircraft."

[@peterhill8398]

Australian actor Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, who played Captain Braddock, flew Spitfires with the Royal Australian Air-Force during WW2.

[@leebritnell2405]

He also provided the blood that resurrected C Lee in Dracula prince of Darkness .

[@scotnick59]

@@leebritnell2405 And appeared with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple

[@alexr5557]

One of the best Adverts ever. RIP Lewis Collins

[@mattmanjack]

Awesome movie thanks for upload.

[@kennethbooker4955]

Another British film good cast

[@peterpyke1213]

an era when they used too fly planes.good movie thank you

[@stevesloan7132]

I like this film. Thanks for posting this!

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

A very young and handsome Bud Tingwell. Australian actor

[@jameswebb4593]

The importance of air temperature was not fully realized in the early jet age. I recall reading in the digest an article of a USAF fighter that failed to unstick on a hot afternoon and crashed.Increased wing flaps would have helped.

[@flybobbie1449]

I think bits have been chopped out of this film. I saw one version where the inquiry at the end explained the V speeds used in take off and explained that the early rotation speed was stalling the wing. That's why the other crews distrusted the figures and rotated at higher speeds.

[@sophieseeker6620]

Came for Cushing and Sanders. Enjoyed both. .

[@floydroadheroes]

great film! Many legends in this! Thank you for this wonderful viewing!

[@brettlehman1114]

There are two things that watching old movies will teach you. Any movie worth a salt has already been done. As for politics and business it's same Schitt, different day. Good movie.

[@diniathome7930]

Excellent, one of the greats.

[@mortimerzilch2608]

whoah! you things are going to go SOUTH when Peter Cushing shows up as a pilot !! cool.

[@davids8449]

Aviation version of crossroads..........Good film with credible acting Thanks for posting

[@MOGGS1942]

Gort was the robot in ' The Day the Earth Stood Still '.

[@gailfisher1350]

Very good movie. Thanks for uploading.

[@kommandantgalileo]

for those who are wondering, the aircraft that played the Phoenix was the Avro Ashton WB493

[@simonf8902]

The final version of the flawed Avro Tudor.

[@kommandantgalileo]

@@simonf8902 yup

[@paulleighton4639]

good film,bernard lee 1908-81, "M" of james bond until his death and gordon jackson of the professionals

[@glorydey5008glowlight]

Perfect Upload Timing Given The Boeing 737 Scandal Going On!

[@mortuaryartist]

Merry Christmas flick, thanks for the videos x

[@michaelmanning5379]

Manningham was played by Andre Morell, who was Dr. Watson to Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes.

[@warrenwilson4818]

Don't forget about his role as a phony bank examiner to P. Cushing's incredible role as bank manager in one of my fav. Brit. films, Cash on Demand, 1961.

[@footfault]

As was Nigel Stock, who did a good job.

[@robertvarlotta4486]

Film release date-1960...Plane-Avro-Ashton. v

[@flybobbie1449]

I think the fuselage is at the Newark air museum. Just checked, it's Avro Ashton WB491.

[@paulbroderick8438]

Yep, there is one thing Quality Assurance is never allowed to do that's 'stop the line'! We'll catch in 'call backs'!

[@muftydog]

All the films that Flick Vault put up are chopped at the beginning and the endings are are,well,pretty abrupt to say the least! Kind of takes away a little of the overall experience to be honest.Shame! Don't get me wrong,i do appreciate them putting them up.

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

Well I suggest you shut the fuck up and be damnwell grateful then,!,,please disregard this comment if you have any mental health issues or perhaps learning difficulties.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

The star is the old Radio Range low frequency navigation aid just at the end of its twenty year lifetime in service. It was remarkably simple yet gave four precise navigation directions from each ground installation, only a simple AM radio was needed on the plane. See it at time 15:30.

[@f1master973]

Notice this is a movie based on true events, the plane the DH Comet. Badly riveted passengers windows, stalling wing, vertical air intakes that didn´t let enough air pass through the engines. After multiple crashes all those design and manufacturing errors were amended and the plane kept flying until the 80´s, and the with the NIMROD, a development of the Comet, the plane is still flying safely today. UK had a 4-5 year time advantage over the rest of the World in terms of jet aircraft, but being the pioneers they paid a high toll...their industry never recovered after that not just because of lack of expertise, but because a lack of support by the UK gov. through the hard times, and were more prone to buying US planes instead. With the TSR2 the biggest treason of them all. With Concorde the last nexus, and currently only Airbus and BAE factories keep UK civil aviation up and running at iddle.

[@nameskhar1510]

Lot's of info ...

[@brianneale2006]

The chairman of the enquiry played the major in Fawlty Towers

[@nickleviton2421]

Great Movie........

[@GutsGrizzle]

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell was a good actor. He also played the farmer in Catweazle, 1st series (1969), where the actor Geoffrey Bayldon played the title roll of Catweazle.. Geoffrey Bayldon was also in THIS film as an aircraft controller but was uncredited!

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

Thanks for your great work

[@tpe54]

"newest jet airliner has a series of accidents" ......sounds familiar.

[@johnkean6852]

Bfilliant movie THANK U SOOO MUCH 🤩😍

[@bethparker1500]

The intro and credits are nipped off, how are we going to learn these Brit?

[@kennyguitarallen5662]

good film

[@nedludd7622]

This title reminds me of "the cone of silence" in the "Get Smart" tv series. There was a film in the 50's about a similar subject with Jimmy Stewart as an engineer investigating air crashes. Sorry, I do not remember the title but only that it is a good film.

[@rickyjaworek1268]

no highway in the sky

[@Baskerville22]

A lot of UK cinema history among the players here... Ballard Berkeley (one of the Commissioners) better known today as the Major in Fawlty Towers. Jack Hedley (First Officer) starred in the mini-series, Who Pays the Ferryman ? Charles Lloyd-Pack (a Commissioner) - the father of the late Roger Lloyd-Pack (Vicar of Dibley & The Old Guys). At the Enquiry the pilot testified that he "opened up all SIX engines (of the Phoenix) to full power"....but the "Phoenix" we see subsequently seems to have only FOUR...???

[@Deebz270]

Jack Hedley was more noteworthy as the SBO in the 'Colditz' series. And the ''Phoenix'' (Avro Ashton) had six gas turbines. The two inner engine nacelles carrying two gas turbines in parallel and with the outboard nacelles containing one gas turbine each. IT PAYS TO OBSERVE and KNOW YOUR AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION.

[@vociferon-heraldofthewinte7763]

Nope, 6. Two each in the inboard pods and one in each of the outer pods on each of the wings.

[@blaisejo]

Great movie, thanks. But why aren't the credits shown in the beginning or at the end ??? Made me remember "No Highway in the Sky", another great British airplane drama.

[@mr29]

Michael Craig was so dashing.

[@NoosaHeads]

31mins 35 seconds. Gort gets up from the seat by pushing forward on the yoke. At 600 mph, that would have been quite interesting. Is it me or does there seem to be a lot of cigarettes and alcohol consumed by the pilots? "Gort - Klaatu barada nikto"

[@tradeladder146]

Same as Today Minus The Cigarettes.

[@keithammleter3824]

That stick grabbing in getting up was done twice. The director should have picked up on the error and re-shot the scenes. But that pales into insignificance when there is the scene where hailstones, at 27,000 feet, take out the windscreen, and Goort orders the co-pilot to stick a cushion in the windscreen to block the 300 MPH wind and they carry on - without oxygen. Not only would hail at that altitude be completely impossible, the explosive decompression would have blown the pilot right out of the hole. And without oxygen, the workload and stress at that point would render them unconscious in less than a minute. I thought it was a good film until that point. Winsdscreens have blown out in real life - in one case a maintenance chief had used the wrong screws in fitting a windscreen (he must have been drunk), and the windscreen blew out shortly after takeoff (so altitude was not yet sufficient to require oxygen). No only did the captain get sucked out, the wind noise was so immense the remaining crew could not communicate at all by talking/shouting. Dumb movie people! Have they never driven a car at speed with a side window open? At 60 MPH you cannot hear the car radio.

[@kennethbooker4955]

This was filmed at shepperton studios

[@garydavis2688]

No credits yet again! So not the full movie...

[@jamesretta5690]

A great story!!!

[@blodwyndavies6395]

Captain Dallas was in 'The Angry Silence' with Richard Attenborough.

[@sfdanceron1]

Peter Cushing, nice surprise.

[@leifvejby8023]

Poor Ashton, never had much of a chance!

[@oneorbonly]

Good film to pair up for a double feature with the 1951 film, "No Highway in the Sky."

[@kommandantgalileo]

All rules in aviation is written in blood, this movie shows it.

[@johnoconnor4111]

Memories of the Comet.

[@susannah1948]

Excellent

[@simonf8902]

No air conditioning on this plane. All pilots covered in sweat. High and hot !

[@royjackson9576]

By the way, if you like this movie, I think you'll like "No Highway in the Sky", with James Stewart

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Looks like the Avro Ashton used in "Cone of Silence" seems to have borrowed from the design of the Avro of Canada, C-102 Jetliner of 1949.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Engines more inboard than on the Ashton. Very similar.

[@jonathanhindson1594]

Great film of it's day, but I do wonder how a plane with 12 rows of seats 4 abreast had over 80 passengers aboard? I'm not a 'see what faults we can find with a film' person, just an aviation buff. Thanks for sharing it.

[@pressureworks]

37:32 ......... What a Guy ! (Ace Rimmer Reference)

[@robertjones-eb4xo]

There were some great British Movies made in the 50s and 60s , THIS WAS NOT ONE OF THEM .!

[@AP-ve2iz]

Where the créditos are? Alejandro Poggi, from Mar del Plata, Argentina

[@diniathome7930]

This is one of several sites that give info imdb ........ name & year www.imdb.com/title/tt0054762/

[@andrewsmactips]

Please Max. Not the cone of silence.

[@brianneale2006]

One of the actors played a rather nasty Japanese officer in a Prison of War Camp for soldiers and officers in World War two. rather good he was too had a good accent "Japanese"

[@quattuorperquattuor1711]

nail-biting drama, you just know he's going to crash the plane!

[@Holland41]

At 20:12 the fuselage in the background looks like the Vickers 1000. Looks too long and slim for a Britannia. Does anybody know?

[@Holland41]

Also another shot shows a Viscount in the background, suggesting that the background is Vickers.

[@robertvarlotta4486]

PS.. What a cast! v

[@pressureworks]

23:44 I've been talking with Pickering......About building............ A Death Star !

[@allybally0021]

'The Phoenix' is not a great name for an aircraft. Maybe 'The Icarus'?

[@BobJones-dq9mx]

OK movie!

[@keithnaylor1981]

Very poor cropped presentation of a movie which should be shown in 2.35:1. It looks like not only has the width been cropped to 4:3 but then the 4:3 height has been further cropped to 16:9. In addition the start of the film is completely missing!

[@flybobbie1449]

I think some of the technical stuff has been chopped out and the final explanation. This seemed slightly different to the first time i saw the film.

[@sirbum1918]

In the real world they would have stuck to blaming the captain.

[@mortimerzilch2608]

there's no ailerons on the wingtips.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Time 17:50.

[@tonypate9174]

"who's having a kipper for breakfast" ?..........hands up chaps

[@Deebz270]

Yuk! Hate the bloody things. Besides, fish stocks are at their lowest ever, thanks to a changing ocean chemistry, so should be avoided.

[@tonypate9174]

@@Deebz270 So a pop tart it is then for you ? Nice be all the more the polar bears (doing well .very well) have ....save sending them POSH BOYS for POLAR BEAR snack on...ask Mr Google on that one...my new kipper for breakfast is...META TARO BLURAY...Matron the magical webs of inter code if you please and what day is ..OH! MAJINAI APOLLO...dance class on ?

[@leebritnell2405]

Well,quite.

[@johannesbols57]

29:20 "Look sharp, now!"

[@jeffcoat1959]

"Cone of Silence" ?? I thought that was a joke device from Get Smart!

[@alfulci6914]

Why is this movie so damn blurry?

[@soniavadnjal7553]

How do you mean, blurry?

[@sabineeins2651]

English films are so much smarter and wittier than American ones

[@ria1636]

Silly generalisation to say the least!

[@sabineeins2651]

@@ria1636 Stupid ignorance fully on your side.

[@mikekemp9877]

very similar in theme to no highway neville shutes novel and film about the comet scandal and attempted cover up! the crash also has echoes of the man u munich disaster! flying commercially was a big adventure in the 50s there were a spate of very intelligent dramas like the high and the mighty island in the sky sos pacific etc and aviation novels were huge! not disaster movies in the airport style or airplane but like this.

[@arts7867]

If you are passionate about cinema, avoid Flick Vault's "full" movies... the credits are removed! I guess they are still in the vault... SHAME ON YOU for your lack of respect for movies.

[@duantorruellas716]

👍👍

[@simonf8902]

Based upon the failed Avro Tudor and De Havilland Comet.

[@hcu4359]

Don't really get the appeal of Michael Craig and that whole brusque, no nonsense I Am A Real Man school of brits. In a scene with a real combat veteran like Richard Todd or Christopher Lee, they probably look like a bunch of posers. In a scene with elegant, precise Peter Cushing (which is where i usually encounter them) they tend to seem like a series of lumbering rhinoceri

[@DUNCANMCLAY]

Music sounds like Spielberg stole it

[@georgecoventry8441]

A fine movie, aside from the utterly stupid and clumsy courtship tactics employed by the younger male lead from the moment he sees the young woman. What a moron! They figured a movie could not possibly attract any audience to the theater if it didn't have a painfully contrived and completely unconvincing "love story" sandwiched pointlessly into the main story line, and that's the only reason Gort's daughter was even in the script. Hollywood does the same thing now, inserting some dumb love story in pretty much every movie they make ("Titanic" being a classic example), so that hasn't changed much, has it? ;-) It's funny, but sad at the same time.

[@soniavadnjal7553]

Not stupid or clumsy courtship tactics - just American.

[@albertchehade9916]

SIX f'n engines??? What is this? A space shuttle? Or the Spruce Goose?

[@harryplummer6356]

You have to remember jet engines back then did not have the thrust of engines of today.

[@None-zc5vg]

There was a post-WW2 British airliner called the Avro Tudor and some examples were converted to jet-power (four jets in two underwing nacelles) for experimental use. One of them had two more jets added and film of that plane was used in this picture (hence the "six engines"). None of the "Ashtons" saw use by airlines.

[@albertchehade9916]

@@harryplummer6356 Yes indeed, you are quite correct. No engine will ever achieve 100% propulsive efficiency.

[@albertchehade9916]

@@None-zc5vg Thanks :)

[@flybobbie1449]

@@None-zc5vg Fuselage is at the Newark air museum.

[@Grifiki]

"sAID IT BEFORE SAY IT AGAIN tHAT PLANE WAS A pROP ENGINE AND NOT A gARBLED jET

[@atilllathehun1212]

You got a faulty keyboard Griffith?

[@paulmorgan4369]

You've chopped the start of the movie off, you fool.

[@squitzy]

Maybe you should take the time to do the work involved of finding it and show it in its full length, you fool.

[@soniavadnjal7553]

@@squitzy 👍!!