Aviation Movies - your top 5?

Montblack wrote:
("Richard Brooks" wrote)

Wings I don't know but I will search that one out.



[Longish ...but fun movie flying stuff about Wings (1927)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(movie)
"The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States
Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film
Registry."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018578/
Wings (1927) Silent film
"Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the
same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I." (Duh! That's always
the plot! g)

[Trivia link]
In contrast to co-star Richard Arlen, 'Charles 'Buddy' Rogers did not
know how to fly a plane when production began, but he learned how to do
so by the end of it. In the close-up scenes where Jack and David (and
other characters) are flying, the actors are actually working the planes
themselves. To shoot these scenes, the actors had to get the plane up in
the air, keep it up, turn on the (motorized) camera and land the
plane--and act at the same time.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076505
"Wings" Director - William Wellman's other films.

http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/online/wellmanextra.htm
Fun interview with the director, William Wellman. [snips]
[Snipped]

Fantastic! Thanks for that, Montblack!

Thank God no-one listed that awful spoof (made for afternoon tv) WWII
film with women flying helicopters into secret locations in Europe,
which looked quite like the set of MASH. Okay, the women slinking
around in lingerie early in the film softens( or is it hardens?) the
blow but it's no excuse.

In my mind, The Tuskegee Airmen didn't deserve to end up as a 'made for
afternoon tv' film as it was a great film. We in the UK got a version
that had been put through NTSC then to PAL to make everything washed out
and reddish-brown. Otherwise a great film.

Richard.


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