Best all time fly boy pictures

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:53:31 GMT, "Dale Alexander"
wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to put together some kind of plan to increase our EAA chapter
membership. To that end, I would like to pick everyone's brains for their
favorite big screen movie that involves airplanes, either main to the plot
or of any background significance. Examples would be like "Flying Tigers"
with John Wayne or "Indiana Jones and the Search for the Holy Grail".

Thanks in advance,

Dale Alexander
"Birds of Paradise" EAA 735
Paradise, Ca.


Skyward...Bette Davis and Clu Gallagher

How about

The Sunship Game
Airshow
Piece of Cake

And thatmovie about the Radio Station guy in a Hughes 500
chasing the Bank robbers in the Alouette 2.

Scott.

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:18:20 -0600, "plasticguy"
wrote:


And thatmovie about the Radio Station guy in a Hughes 500
chasing the Bank robbers in the Alouette 2.

"Birds of Prey" with David Janssen.

Ron Wanttaja

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:18:20 -0600, "plasticguy"
wrote:

And thatmovie about the Radio Station guy in a Hughes 500
chasing the Bank robbers in the Alouette 2.

"Birds of Prey" with David Janssen.

Ron Wanttaja

There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
that I saw once.

Great story AND great flying.

Somebody remember it for me?

ichar

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:33:46 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
that I saw once.

Great story AND great flying.

Somebody remember it for me?

"The Pilot"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079719/

IIRC, the studio's behavior after the release of this film triggered
Robertson's fight against the financial shenanigans the studios were using
to shaft actors. Richard Riley probably has a better summary of that than
I do....

BTW, the IMDB listing for "Birds of Prey," the David Janssen helicopter
movie, can be found at:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069787/

It's funny to see how MANY movies have had the title "Birds of Prey."
Eleven, between 1917 and 2002.

Ron Wanttaja

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:31:35 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

:IIRC, the studio's behavior after the release of this film triggered
:Robertson's fight against the financial shenanigans the studios were using
:to shaft actors. Richard Riley probably has a better summary of that than
:I do....

That was actually just before "The Pilot" - it happened in 1977, the
movie was 1979. In fact, I'd guess that the reason the film was
co-written, directed and starred Robertson, for "Summit Studios" but
shot by New Line, was it was during the period that he was
blacklisted. What better time to do something completely on your own.

The "shenanigans" are detailed in the book "Indecent Exposure" by
David McClintick. It about how the head of Columbia studios, David
Begelman, was stealing money from the studio by cutting checks to
other people and forging their signatures. Robertson was one of the
forgees, found out about it, and brought it all to light, forcing
Begelman out. As a result of his stand up actions, he was (naturally)
blackballed for about 8 years. I once had a long talk with him, and
asked him about "Charlie" (an amazing performance). I asked if
winning the Oscar for it was the high point of his career, he said,
no, it was getting that crook Begelman. Begelman paid a fine and got
probation, and later got his record expunged after making a film on
the evils of drug use. Begelman killed himself in 1995, there's a
film about the whole thing that's been in development for years.

It set up the sale of Columbia to Coke, and thence to Sony, and thus
the move of Peter Guber and Jon Peters, the buy of the old MGM lot,
the Time/WB merger, AOL/TW, the fall of AOL - basically the entire
shape of the Hollywood today.

Full disclosure - I once TA'd a class for Norman Horrowitz, at the
time the head of international video distribution for MGM. He'd been
one of the Columbia execs under Begelman. He appears several times in
the book - each time someone tells him something very, very bad about
Begelman and he exclaims "Holy ****!" Thus, he was well known as Holy
**** Horrowitz. He autographed my copy of the book using the
nickname.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:33:46 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

:There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
:that I saw once.
:
:Great story AND great flying.
:
:Somebody remember it for me?

"The Pilot" 1979. On video it's called "Danger in the Skies."
Robertson directed, co-wrote, and flew the DC-8 in some scenes.

Was it "Fargo"? Oops, wrong story (Fargo is where the Northwest
pilots had a few cocktails before continuing their flight to Minneapolis
a few years back). Sorry, couldn't resist...

Scott


Richard Lamb wrote:
Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:18:20 -0600, "plasticguy"
wrote:


And thatmovie about the Radio Station guy in a Hughes 500
chasing the Bank robbers in the Alouette 2.

"Birds of Prey" with David Janssen.

Ron Wanttaja


There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
that I saw once.

Great story AND great flying.

Somebody remember it for me?

ichar

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:59:27 +0000, acepilot wrote:

Was it "Fargo"? Oops, wrong story (Fargo is where the Northwest
pilots had a few cocktails before continuing their flight to Minneapolis
a few years back).

It was actually Moorhead, anyway... :-)

Ron "I ate at the Speakeasy" Wanttaja

R U sure? I wasn't aware that NWA flew into Moorhead (or is the Fargo
airport really located across the border into Minnesota?)...anyway, they
didn't make a movie called Moorhead (except possible an adult movie) so
nobody would've gotten the joke

Scott "escaped from MN to WI" L.



Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:59:27 +0000, acepilot wrote:


Was it "Fargo"? Oops, wrong story (Fargo is where the Northwest
pilots had a few cocktails before continuing their flight to Minneapolis
a few years back).


It was actually Moorhead, anyway... :-)

Ron "I ate at the Speakeasy" Wanttaja