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Does any music historian (specialist in marches) know the source of the march music played under the opening credits, and again during one of the Royal Air Force flying squadron sequences much later in the film? That rousing, patriotic melody resembles the kind of marches being written by British popular composer Albert Ketelby in those decades, raising the logical question whether Ketelby himself might have composed this one without credit? Or did Fox's Alfred Newman (a superb composer in his own right) succeed in out-Ketelbying Mr Ketelby? -- Prof Steven P Hill, Cinema Studies, University of Illinois.

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Can't help - but I wondered if you knew the UK release date for this film?

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