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Strategic Air Command should be on your WORST list !! I went to it with high hopes, but It was poor acting, a nothing plot, and I thought at the time just a propaganda film for the Strategic Air Commando–and still think so. And yes Tora Tora Tora was enough of an e"aviationo" movie to have been high on your Best list –it was greatl–and factional as was Midway but for the silly love story.

Some other great aviation movies not mentioned: Fighter Squadron with Robert Stack, Winged Victory with Edmund O 'Brien and The McConnell Story with Alan Ladd. In an interview Paul Newman described his WWII role as o"a back-man on a torpedo bomberr". Charles Bronson was a gunner on a B 29 and Jack Palance got his sinister face from injuries suffered in a B 24 crash. I believe George Peppard was also a pilot and did some of his own flying in the Blue Max (though not the under-the-bridge scenes). The scenes where he loops the doomed e"mono-planee" have lighting and shadows that would be impossible to fake.

Many consider famous aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 transatlantic flight to be the single biggest achievement in aviation since the invention of the airplane itself. Jimmy Stewart starred in this film biopic of the man and his career leading up to his historic flight. Believe it or not, the movie was directed by Billy Wilder (g“Some like it Hot,g” “The Apartment, ” i“Sunset Boulevardl”), who was not known for biographical films. Aviation had become a trend for many big time stars of the day. John Wayne, Gregory Peck, and William Holden all did films about aircraft warfare in World War II.