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"The Dam Busters", upon which George Lucas leaned heavily in "Star
Wars", is black and white, but better every time you see it: from four-engine Lancasters screaming over the countryside at night at sixty feet, to clocks ticking in the bedrooms of dead aircrew after the raid on the German dams; Richard Todd, who plays the squadron's leader, dropped in to Normandy as a paratrooper on the night of 5-6 June 1944. Not too long; The "Spirit of St. Louis", in which Jimmy Stewart, who flew bombers in the European theatre, plays Charles Lindbergh, who flew P-38's and other aircraft in the Pacific (as well as a small, silver single engine airplane across the Atlantic!). Color. "Twelve O'clock High" (the movie, not the tv series). Black and white, relatively short. "The Right Stuff", especially the parts in which Chuck Yeager, wonderfully played by Sam Sheppard: 1. launches in a B-29 and breaks the sound barrier in the X-1; 2. launches in a later development of that airplane and breaks the canopy with his head; 3. launches in the NF-104 in going for the altitude record, and breaks it (the NF-104). Long, though. If you want to stretch the definition of "movie" a bit, "Piece of Cake", a mini-series about the summer of 1940 which was shown on PBS about ten years ago, is now out on DVD. It has long, loving sequences of Spitfires flying off grass fields, landing on lawns of country houses, flying under bridges, and arcing through the skies after 109's. This would probably be way too long, though (about six hours). All of the above would be PG, as I recall, with "Piece of Cake" perhaps being PG-13. |
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