• 
  James Cagney

  Brian MacLean (bush pilot)
• 
  Gig Young

  Student pilot
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  Brenda Marshall

  Emily Foster
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  J.M. Kerrigan

  Foster (storekeeper/Emily's father)
• 
  Leslie Denison

  Flight lieutenant
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  Pat Flaherty

  Drill sergeant
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  Charles Irwin

  Chief ground instructor
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  Walter Brooke

  Duty officer

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  J. Farrell MacDonald

  Dr. Neville (from Churchtown)
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  Clem Bevans

  Sam 'Store-Teeth' Morrison
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  Paul Cavanagh

  Group Captain
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  Frank Wilcox

  Flight Lt. Wood
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  Frederick Worlock

  President of court-martial
• 
  Reginald Gardiner

  Scrounger Harris (bush pilot)
• 
  Alan Hale

  Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)

• 
  Miles Mander

  Winston S. Churchill
• 
  Dennis Morgan

  Johnny Dutton (bush pilot)
• 
  Lucia Carroll

  Blonde
• 
  Louis Jean Heydt

  Provost Marshal
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  Stuart Holmes

  Man entering hotel
• 
  Ray Montgomery

  Aircraftsman Hodges
• 
  Don Dillaway

  Instructor
• 
  George Meeker

  Playboy
• 
  Benny Baker

  Popcorn Kearns (bush pilot)
• 
  George Tobias

  Blimp Lebec (bush pilot)
• 
  Herbert Gunn

  Aircraftsman
• 
  Reginald Denny

  Commanding officer
• 
  Billy Wayne

  Mechanic
• 
  Hardie Albright

  Kingsley
• 
  Russell Arms

  Louis 'Alabama' Prentiss
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  W.A. Bishop

  Himself (as Air Marshal W.A. Bishop)
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  Morton Lowry

  Carmichael
• 
  Patrick O'Moore

  Fyffe