"Pearl Harbor" still sucks...

I like them both, even the sci-fi computer generated Sky
Captain was worth seeing once.

Strategic Air Command with Jimmy again, B36 and B47.


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| "Jim Macklin"
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airplane
| Hollywood movies?
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| Ah - a couple more I overlooked:
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| "No Highway in the Sky," with Jimmy Stewart
| "Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow" (Well I liked it!)

In article 3EC3g.8828$ZW3.8805@dukeread04,
"Jim Macklin" wrote:

It isn't an aviation film, it is really pretty terrible, but
the first minute or so of Can Hieronymus Merkin Forget Mercy
Humpy and Find True Happiness has an SR 71 in-flight scene
that is worth seeing.

Battle of Britain
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Great Waldo Pepper
Spirit of St. Louis
Dam Busters
Island in the Sky
Flight of the Phoenix [Jimmy Stewart version]
no special order


Anybody care to add to the list of good to great airplane
Hollywood movies?

Not actually hollywood but: Piece of Cake

The Aviator
etc etc.

google on "Flying Movies", "Must have aviation movies", or
just simply "Movies" within rec.aviation.*

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lawyers will hate

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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It isn't an aviation film, it is really pretty terrible, but
the first minute or so of Can Hieronymus Merkin Forget Mercy
Humpy and Find True Happiness has an SR 71 in-flight scene
that is worth seeing.

Battle of Britain
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Great Waldo Pepper
Spirit of St. Louis
Dam Busters
Island in the Sky
Flight of the Phoenix [Jimmy Stewart version]
no special order


Anybody care to add to the list of good to great airplane
Hollywood movies?



snip


Yeah... don't forget the greatest aviation classic of all time...

"Airplane"




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Assume crash positions!

The opening 3 minutes of AIRPORT, until the acting started.


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| It isn't an aviation film, it is really pretty terrible,
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| the first minute or so of Can Hieronymus Merkin Forget
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| Humpy and Find True Happiness has an SR 71 in-flight
scene
| that is worth seeing.
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| Battle of Britain
| Tora, Tora, Tora
| The Great Waldo Pepper
| Spirit of St. Louis
| Dam Busters
| Island in the Sky
| Flight of the Phoenix [Jimmy Stewart version]
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| Hollywood movies?
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I like the oldies:

Eagle Squadron (1942) w/ Robert Stack & Diana Barrymore
Air Force (1943) w/ John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy & Harry
Carey
and, of course, the classic: McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965)

AJ

LOL, I'd expect that one from Montblack. g

The Monk


C. Massey wrote:
"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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It isn't an aviation film, it is really pretty terrible, but
the first minute or so of Can Hieronymus Merkin Forget Mercy
Humpy and Find True Happiness has an SR 71 in-flight scene
that is worth seeing.

Battle of Britain
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Great Waldo Pepper
Spirit of St. Louis
Dam Busters
Island in the Sky
Flight of the Phoenix [Jimmy Stewart version]
no special order


Anybody care to add to the list of good to great airplane
Hollywood movies?



snip


Yeah... don't forget the greatest aviation classic of all time...

"Airplane"




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I'm glad that someone realized that was sarcasm!

Actually, my favorite would be Memphis Belle



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"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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It isn't an aviation film, it is really pretty terrible, but
the first minute or so of Can Hieronymus Merkin Forget Mercy
Humpy and Find True Happiness has an SR 71 in-flight scene
that is worth seeing.

Battle of Britain
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Great Waldo Pepper
Spirit of St. Louis
Dam Busters
Island in the Sky
Flight of the Phoenix [Jimmy Stewart version]
no special order


Anybody care to add to the list of good to great airplane
Hollywood movies?



snip


Yeah... don't forget the greatest aviation classic of all time...

"Airplane"




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Yes to the Belle


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| the first minute or so of Can Hieronymus Merkin
Forget Mercy
| Humpy and Find True Happiness has an SR 71 in-flight
scene
| that is worth seeing.
|
| Battle of Britain
| Tora, Tora, Tora
| The Great Waldo Pepper
| Spirit of St. Louis
| Dam Busters
| Island in the Sky
| Flight of the Phoenix [Jimmy Stewart version]
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airplane
| Hollywood movies?
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LOL, I'd expect that one from Montblack. g

It isn't an aviation film, it is really pretty terrible, but the first
minute or so of Can Hieronymus Merkin Forget Mercy Humpy and Find True
Happiness has an SR 71 in-flight scene that is worth seeing.


He beat me to it. g

http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=63238
Joan Collins as Polyester Poontang :-)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064123/
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
(1969)


Montblack

As corny as it sounds Ron Howard directed a TV movie with Bette Davis
and Howard Hessman...I think it was "Skyward" or something like that.

Opening scenes with gliders and biplanes was pretty cool, story was
about a girl in a wheelchair learning to fly.