The Most Ridiculous Movie Titles Ever

With titles this long, who even needs a logline or a description? Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a 1965 British film is set in 1910, as an English media mogul tries to prove that his nation is the foremost in aviation achievement by sponsoring a contest for pilots to race from London to Paris. Ken Annakin (director and co-writer of the film) and Jack Davies were nominated for an Oscar for their original screenplay for the film (against four other films with much shorter titles).

The title was shared, in part, with the name of the intro song written by a studio executive's wife, with the lyrics "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines / They Go Up, Tiddly, Up, Up / They Go Down, Tiddly, Down, Down." The second half, obviously, refers to the details of the journey that resulted from the contest, for some reason. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines would later inspire the title of an episode of Wonderland about a similar pie in the sky flying mission.