Word: robur
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...summit, a peculiar projectile came whooshing up and-splat! The gasbag fell into a crater. When the passengers came to their senses, they found themselves aboard the sort of crazy airship schoolboys have been sketching ever since Jules Verne produced those tomes of fantascience (Master of the World, Robur the Conqueror] that inspired this properly naive and lively little subteen special...
...Albatross is the name of the flying machine, and its master is Robur (Vincent Price), a mysterious neo-Nemo who calls himself "a citizen of the world" and grandly declares "war against war." In short order he destroys the British fleet and breaks up a battle in North Africa, but in the end, of course, Robur suffers the fate that Hollywood perennially reserves for those whose means are evil though their ends be good, and the world goes happily back to war. The paper-airplane crowd may find the ethics of the film a bit confusing, but they are bound...
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