Reach for the Sky (1956)

Actors

• Basil Appleby (actor)
• Frank Atkinson (actor)
• Michael Balfour (actor)
• Trevor Bannister (actor)
• Victor Beaumont (actor)
• Derek Blomfield (actor)
• Roland Brand (actor)
• Roland Brand (actor)
• John Breslin (actor)
• Lyndon Brook (actor)
• Peter Burton (actor)
• Peter Burton (actor)
• Eddie Byrne (actor)
• Peter Byrne (actor)
• Ronald Adam (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama
• War

Taglines:

Valor That Soars Beyond the Limits of Man's Endurance...Drama That Probes Beneath the Surface of Wartime Emotions
10,000,000 Americans Have Thrilled to This Stirring Story in Reader's Digest!

Quotes:

[Bader finds out that 242 squadron has not received replacements for the spares and tools they lost when they pulled out of France]::Warr. Off. West: We've applied for replacements through the usual channels, Sir.::Bader: And?::Warr. Off. West: Well, the usual channels appear to be clogged.::Bader: *Are* they? Well, We'll ruddy well *unclog* 'em!

Bader: Mr Blake!::Blake: Yes, Sir?::Bader: Where can I buy a Spitfire?

[242 Squadron have just found out Bader has tin legs]::Turner: Great, so now we carry a passenger in the driving seat!

Equipment Officer: I'm sorry, the book says I must wait three months before I can initiate the procedure for hastening new issue.::Bader: Fine! We'll send Goring a telegram, and ask him not to come over for *three months*!

Bader: [Spotting the Base Commander] I was just on my way to find you, Sir. We've been unable to get replacement spares and tools, so I've sent this signal of to Group. '242 Squadron fully operational as regards pilots, but non-operational, repeat, non-operational as regards equipment'::Bader's 242 Squadron Base Commander: [Taking the signal form from Bader and reading it] You know, you just can't do this!::Bader: Well, I've done it, Sir.::Bader's 242 Squadron Base Commander: There'll be an awful row at Group.::Bader: There'll be an awful row at Fighter Command. I sent them a copy too!::Bader's 242 Squadron Base Commander: Well, I can see your squadron will either be getting new equipment or a new C.O. I wouldn't like to bet on which!

Turner: Legs or no legs, I've never seen such a mobile fireball.

[Bader refuses to perfom some low flying for a trio of civilian pilots]::Civilian Pilot: Typical, these Air Force boys only perform when there's a crowd!

Robert Desoutter: You'll never walk again without a stick.::Bader: Damn that! I'll never walk with one!

Bader: [Bader is at a sanatorium in recovery and listening to a fellow patient complain about pains to one of his legs] . Have it off, old boy, have it off.

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Peel - 7 Mary 3
• Peel - Seven Mary Three
• Peel - Nine
• Peel - Redemption
• Everlive - Peel
• Breathe - Peel
• Comes Down...OK - Peel
• (This Is) My Jesus - Peel
• Morning After - Peel
• Crack - Peel
• Comes Down... Ok - Peel
• Zena's Song - Peel
• Deep - Peel
• My Jesus - Peel
• Loaded - Peel
• Neverending - Peel
• Natalie Somewhere - Peel

I'm going back to Virginia
If it's not too late, to make my break
Maybe Carolina
near the company of Grace
If I find New Orleans
you know my will just fades
when I see all my people
on the Esplanade
If the O-town humor
shines on my estate
Let them peel me like an orange
taste the sugar of my?
Going back to beginnings
I'm on call, to tell you all
There's a paranoid loose
in the urban shopping mall
All the perfect people on Orange Ave.
they're all right
All the ugly ones who tried to run you through
they're all right
If you can stand yourself and sleep tonight
Let them peel you like an orange
taste your shivering insides

I'm going back to Virginia
If it's not too late, to make my break
Maybe Carolina
near the company of Grace
If I find New Orleans
you know my will just fades
when I see all my people
on the Esplanade
If the O-town humor
shines on my estate
Let them peel me like an orange
taste the sugar of my….
Going back to beginnings
I'm on call, to tell you all
There's a paranoid loose
in the urban shopping mall
All the perfect people on Orange Ave.
they're all right
All the ugly ones who tried to run you through
they're all right
If you can stand yourself and sleep tonight
Let them peel you like an orange

"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel" (2x)
[nine]
I'm pullin up on the scene in my limousine
Pocket full of green, voice full of mean
Rhymes out the ass plus I'm fast at freestyle
Get a lil wild and profile my ill style
Numba won contender that's me, n-i-n-e
Nine I'm prime-time, paid and livin lovely
Messin heads up who thought I was wack or just a-ight
Nahhhh, I'm one of the best to ever touch a mic
Soon to be shown, soon to be proved
By the album take it home put the needle to the groove
See what I'm sayin - mad originality
Recognize give props and shape the ground til it'll fit me
You won't be around another second
When I'm wreckin deadly mic-checkin armageddeon off I'm lettin
I wet you like microwave pizza in the blender
It's written on my face, numba won contender
Peel nigguh, peel!
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
Peel nigguh, peel!!
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
[nine]
Eardrums pop when the voice drops
Deep like the bottom of the pit lyrics I spit like a grit
Shit, I couldn't stop if I wanted to I'm warnin you
I'm dispatchin, I get a little warmer than you
Grey skies are callin you, I'm all in you
Up in that ass like a homo, check the promo
Now that's flippin the script, whatchu flippin?
On the 4-oh-z I'm sippin, no time for trippin
There's money to be made in this trade
Gotta blow up like jack jack jack +jack of spades+
No question, I'm just like nas with smith and wesson
Except you comin out your skin when I say start undressin
Give me e'rything, from cash to ring to razor blade
That you had up in sing-sing
All in all I'm rushin like alabama
So nigga peel like a banana
Peel nigguh, peel!
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
Peel nigguh, peel!!
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
Peel nigguh, peel!!!
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
Peel nigguh, peel
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
[nine]
Deeper than I was last time
I get deeper everytime I rhyme
Deeper, deeper, jeepers, creepers
Where'd you get them eyes?
Suprise, I'm wise to the game
Fame don't pay bills, skills pay bills
You still wanna test me, try to molest me
Numba won contender, soon to be the best b
Can't +arrest+ me, not the +development+ of _tennessee_
Mad drunk off the hennessey, remember me
(what more can I want? )and when it comes to rhymes and guns
(got em all) it's real like that, pop goes the gat
Pockets mad fat, hoes in the back
Jim hats in the pockets, gun in the waistband
Now who's the man nigga, now who's the man? !
Peel nigguh, peel!
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
Peel nigguh, peel!!
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
Peel nigguh, peel
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
Peel nigguh, peel!
"gimme that crown you're wearin or feel blue steel"
[nine]
Bob lewis makin niggaz peel
Bob lewis makin niggaz peel
Al blount makin niggaz peel
Al blount makin niggaz peel
Fed productions makin niggaz peel
Fed productions makin niggaz peel
You know the nine is makin niggaz peel
You know the nine is makin niggaz peel

I've been peeling away the layers
Digging to the center
Trying to find some common thread to follow
Turning to face the mirrors
In deepening reflection
But all the answers seem to be so hollow
Face buried
Hands clawing at the sand
I've built myself this fortress
But now the walls are cracking
I've been sifting through the pieces
Searching for a pattern
Trying to find some hidden sense of purpose
Going down blind alleys
Has me putting out my eyes
'cause I don't have the will to see what's there
Face covered
I'm shutting out the world
Retreating in this shell
And waiting for the blackness
Would I know peace of mind?
Is it true?
Would you know what you'd find
If you searched for it, too?
What you do depends on you
So explore
What I'll be depends on me
And what's there at the core
I look into my eyes
And nothing gazes back
Shadows without substance

Storm rages
Trapped and caged
In light from the dying day
We'll crawl in the dead of the night
Breaking' out with our hands
Whatever, whenever we go
Whatever it all ends undone
Whatever, whenever we go
Whatever it all will go on
Ever live it all again
If we could be the same again
Then you and I would fall again
Never live it all again
Turn to me
Blessed and breathing
Cry for the sun to rise again
Now tomorrow it won't come
Wear it off, let it go
Whatever, whenever we go....etc

Breathe pain.....lord out of my head
Lay me, lay me, lay me, lay me down
Fall......out of my way
Sinking', I'm sinking
As you stay will you ?
Will you ?
This.....night leaves with no sleep
Coming, coming, coming with no end
Somebody please stay
Hear me out, I talk in riddles
Home can't be found, I've lost my way hold me (I'm talking)
Call me (I'm walking)
And that's all
I don't care what, I don't care where, I don't care when breathe....life into these days
Tell me, tell me, tell me where to go
Feel.....safe when you come
Hear me out, I talk in riddles

Open my book
Read my diary
Squeeze out
Every sick bone that's in me
What are you gonna do when I come running
It won't come to no confronting, cause I'm whipping out all sense in me,
Whipping out all sense
What are you gonna say, I stare away, I know I fucked up, that's OK
Forgive me, forgive me....
This is the day it all comes down..........OK
This is the day it all comes down OK
Close my eyes now
Strange taste in my mouth
Now, fear is long gone
Shook my hand, waved goodbye what are you gonna do......etc.....
This is the day it all comes down.........OK
This is the day it all comes down OK

You've got your fingerprints from me
But you've got no glasses you can't see
Nothing here was meant for you
I do mine, do what you do
I 'am - you are
Be here - be now
This is my faith, this is my Jesus
This is my heart, this is my gold
You turn it up but make no sound
You've seen it all you were kicked around
Nothing here was made by you
So when it falls what will you do, oh, what will you do?
I am - you are
Be here - be now
This is my faith, this is my Jesus

And our blood would never rise
And our hearts hung out to dry
And we played our cancerous lives
....here we are the morning after
And we all felt the rope
And we wanted to let go
But we found a grain of love
....here we go the morning after
Shine and glow
Turning from sand to gold
Now leaving the life we know
Hooked off; we're freaks and angles
And it all seemed black and white
And all wrong it felt like right
And it kicked us from inside
....here we are the morning after
And doors slammed pitch black night
And our fathers cut the lines
But we all carried lights
....here we go the morning after
(I feel - relief....ah-ah..)
Shine and glow
Turning from sand to gold
Now leaving the life we know

(here i' am)
Yeah, I'm goin', goin', goin' far away
I never felt caught up and so astray
I'm turning, turning, turning one last look
To see the sum of all the hits I took (let it go)
It's over, over, when we greet the sun
Yeah, it's over long before we're gone
Tried' to shake, shake the monkey off my back
But I was swallowed by the crack
Hey! it's injected in our veins
Demented river's pouring out
Cracked mirror souls
And would you like to wear my name ?
Wouldn't make a difference anyhow
Cracked mirror souls.............
(how could I)
How could i, could i, could i, be so wrong ?
Worn off all my fears now time has come
I will shake, shake the monkey off my back
We'll all be swallowed by the crack

Open my book
Read my diary
Squeeze out
Every sick bone that's in me
What are you gonna do when I come running
It won't come to no confronting, cause I'm whipping out all sense in me,
Whipping out all sense
What are you gonna say, I stare away, I know I fucked up, that's ok
Forgive me, forgive me....
This is the day it all comes down..........ok
This is the day it all comes down ok
Close my eyes now
Strange taste in my mouth
Now, fear is long gone
Shook my hand, waved goodbye what are you gonna do......etc.....
This is the day it all comes down.........ok

Boy....
The milkyway without the light
Eyes closed replay with head in hands
Trapped in the corner without sight
The sky's torn open when you cry
I can grow wings he said
Just like magic go away
I sometimes wish that I was dead
He said
If....
Yeah, if I could you know I would
Take on the fear that clouds your mind
Could be the one that maps the sun
Let me in I'll be the one
I can grow wings he said
Just like magic disappear
I sometimes wish that I was dead
He said
Come lay my burdens to the ground
Yah, wrap me in so safe and sound
All coloured dreams torn years ago
Now, I can't stay, I can't stay, I can't stay
I can't stay this long
Go....
Go find the space, the love to breathe
No need to give yourself away
Yeah, leave behind these tired streets
Please erase those lying lines

What it does to you
Is what it does to me
And everything is wrapped up in our plastic souls
And what they steal from you
Is what they steal from me
I know the pain, the salt and soaking pillow hide
(it's okay, cry it's okay)
And it will come again
And who will take the blame
Flick of the switch into another dreamless sleep
We're kickin' up a row
Frantic dog eyes glow
Sick and wounded and we prowl the streets at night, hey yeah.....
Don't sleep
Too deep
Be sure to cover all your tracks
Don't sleep
Too deep
'cause it's always coming back
Yeah, I know boy
And I've seen a girl
They swam like bricks, never reached the other side
Pills and christ on a cross
Won't get us off the hook
Keep the guard now when the sun falls from the sky
Don't sleep
Too deep

You've got your fingerprints from me
But you've got no glasses you can't see
Nothing here was meant for you
I do mine, do what you do
I 'am - you are
Be here - be now
This is my faith, this is my jesus
This is my heart, this is my gold
You turn it up but make no sound
You've seen it all you were kicked around
Nothing here was made by you
So when it falls what will you do, oh, what will you do?
I am - you are
Be here - be now
This is my faith, this is my jesus

I am a friend
You watch me slip again and again
I know your name
You tore me up, left to bleed
But I still want you.....
I come, it will blow
Yeah, I'm clear like rain, but I feel like snow into the bends
I can't see where it all ends
I'm wide awake
But still asleep
Again the buzzing in my ears
Yeah, I'm a loaded,loaded,loaded,loaded gun
Pull the trigger, I will shoot you one by one
Here comes the day
Will sweep my sorrow and lies away
The ground is so cold
In the morning sun, feel overthrown

Feels like the universe
Like some forgotten curse
Sleepwalking through the night
Dream's cold - this life
Sun is up now, face the world
Someone's nailed a cryin' girl
Exposed in black and white
World's cold - this life
I don't know why
I don't know when
It all began with sorrow
Let it out
Let it out
It can't be
It can't be
Neverending
It's on these crowded streets
In every man you meet
It's always within sight
Dark cold - this life
Now, time might heal these wounds
But light turns dark too soon
And dogs still bark and bite

Hey, wasted boy
Don't slash your soul
Don't slash your soul, it's all you got
Little girl
Don't eat the world
Don't eat the world all in one piece
It goes on and on and on.............('till we) rip it up, rip it up...
Everything they ever say, every time you're in their way
Every night I ask is natalie, natalie somewhere?
All in all they're in the cold, all in all they're without love
Yeah, all in all I ask is natalie, natalie somewhere?
Hey, little boy, don't fake a smile, don't fake a smile it'll stick like glue
Wasted girl kiss the world, yeah, kiss the world before it kicks you