Overview
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
Director and cast
- Gerald Thomas Director
- Michael Craig as Jack Hopkins
- Anne Helm as Kathy Fisher
- Jeff Donnell as Miriam Fisher
- Alan Hale Jr. as Paul Fisher
- Noel Purcell as Admiral Sir Digby Trevelyan
- Cecil Parker as Sir Giles Thompson
- Roland Culver as Lord Upshott
- Joan Sims as Nellie Trotter
- John Standing as Humphrey Gore-Brown
- Brian Oulton as Vicar
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