Flying Fifty-Five

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{{Infobox film

| name = Flying Fifty-Five

| image = File:Flying Fifty-Five.jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = Reginald Denham

| producer = Victor M. Greene

| writer = Vernon Clancey
Kenneth Horne
Victor M. Greene

| based_on = {{based on|The Flying Fifty-Five |Edgar Wallace}}

| starring = Derrick De Marney
Nancy Burne
Marius Goring
Peter Gawthorne

| music =

| cinematography = Ernest Palmer

| editing = Ted Richards

| studio = Admiral Films

| distributor = RKO Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1939|05}}

| runtime = 72 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget = £18,304{{cite magazine|title=‘The highest salary ever paid to a human being’: Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England |last=Chapman|first= Llewella|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|magazine=Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10|volume=19|number=4|page=470-494 at 482}}

| gross =

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Flying Fifty-Five is a 1939 British sports-drama film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Derrick De Marney, Nancy Burne, Marius Goring, John Warwick and Peter Gawthorne.{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7196303d|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803093039/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7196303d|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-08-03|title=Flying Fifty-five (1939)|work=BFI}} It was made by Admiral Films at Welwyn Studios.Wood p.98 The film is based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace which had previously been made into a 1924 silent film The Flying Fifty-Five.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=flying+fifty-five+1939&pg=PA487|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|isbn=9783110951943|last1=Goble|first1=Alan|date=8 September 2011}}