If you've got high speed internet, go to www.archive.org, click movies and then find "Flying with Arthur Godfrey." It's seriously great, Super Connies for forty minutes! And the "Set climb power! Ahhh, I think it's time for a Chesterfield." is great...
Dont' forget about Kareem Abdul Jabbar in airplane! I had him on my flight out of Telluride once, in a 1900D no less. His shoulders scraped the ceiling and I don't know how he kept his cowboy hat on...
Sure made the flight more fun quoting great airplane lines for the whole flight.
There was also a movie in 1981, called Red Flag. Its takes place at the Red Flag competition at Nellis. It wasnt that tell known, but I have seen it on tv a couple of times
THAT MOVIE IS JUST ABOUT THE MOST IDIOTIC AVIATION MOVIE EVER MADE!! "IRON EAGLE" IS GREAT BY COMPARISON!!!!
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""Piece of Cake" is a six-part British miniseries about a Spitfire squadron during the Battle of France and Battle of Britain that came out in the late '80s or early '90s. "
This is one of the best aviation films ever made. The pilots had human qualities I've not seen in any other aviation movie.
These go waay back, and are difficult to find, but I'm gonna suggest:
"Hell's Angels" (1930)- produced by Howard Hughes, IIRC. The plot may be a little thin, but the aerial combat scenes are AWESOME! Remember that they didn't have any special effects back then, all the flying was really done. A few pilots died in the filming, as well.
"Wings" (1927)- a silent film, but the first movie to win the Best Picture Oscar.
And I'll second "Strategic Air Command," "Dr. Strangelove," and "Tora! Tora! Tora!." (I've got the last one on DVD, if you want to borrow it...)
Did anyone notice that, even though we stayed far from the original category of "old, black-and-white" movies, nobody mentioned that classic testosterone trip, TOP GUN?
how about the bridges at toko ri with william holden and a more recent but as old as some mentioned here, "FINAL APPROACH". it was ok, it revolved around a guy sitting in what appears to be a psychologists office in a millitary flight suit...kind of like a twilight zone type ending.
Also, two movies from the master of terror..."Langoliers" and one where a guy was flying around in a bonanza, chasing down a vampire living out of a black chessna mix master...
And who of course could forget william shatner, sitting on a plane with a gremlin running amok out side on the wing....I think the role wound up getting played by john lithgow in twilight zone the movie.
My co workers never want to talk about flying or movies, much less do they see them...thanks for letting me share a moment in the conversation guys/gals.
An interesting story concept, although many of the effects and makeup are very cheesy by today's standards, can be seen in Millenium, with Kris Kristoferson and Cheryl Ladd (who is darn cute in this movie).
Cheryl and her stewardess friends (uh.....flight attendant friends....) are sent from the future to board airplanes which the future people already know are going to crash, and replace the passengers who will turn up "dead" with lifeless "copy" bodies made in the future. Are you following this? The survivors are zapped to sleep and left on board, including a young boy who grows up to be an accident investigator: Kris Kristoferson.
If you can find a copy (it was never put on video - but there are bootleg copies off of the reel) try the old Earest Gann novel turned movie "The High and the Mighty" with John Wayne. I had a copy and lost it years ago. I've also heard that they made a movie out of "Fate is the Hunter", also by Gann. Even if you can't find them on tape... they are a MUST READ for any aviator.
Originally posted by DCitrus9 Dont' forget about Kareem Abdul Jabbar in airplane! I had him on my flight out of Telluride once, in a 1900D no less. His shoulders scraped the ceiling and I don't know how he kept his cowboy hat on...
Hate to get off topic here, but a Captain I flew with at Allegheny told a good Kareem story. Just before taxi a Flight Attendant came up to the F/O's door on the Shorts 360 (had sliding doors on the outboard sides of the cockpit - one each for the Captain and F/O) to tell the pilots that a passenger in the first row behind the Captain refused to move for required seat blocking. The Captain told her to ask him to move one more time and emphasize that it was required for weight and balance reasons. She did, and came right back to say that he claimed to need the extra room he had in the first row of the shed. The Captain turned around in his seat - ready to verbally bitch - slap the obstinate passenger, slammed the door back, and looked right into the eyes of Kareem Abdul Jabbar. He had his knees up under his chin, and a pissed off expression on his face. The Captain just stared at him for a long moment, smiled, and told Mr. Jabbar and the Flight Attendant that it would be OK if he sat there.
Maybe they moved three or four normal sized people back to row 13 or something.
Oh! I started this thread, but I thought I'd throw a movie in.
"Frequent Flier" or something to that effect. I've seen it on TV twice in the past couple months. It's about an airline captain who has a wife in Chicago, a wife in Dallas, and a wife in Hawaii. It's hilarious... this guy is jumpseating back and forth to visit with all his different wives. Ridiculous.
If anybody can find a copy of "The High and The Mighty" please let me know where you got it. I saw it once about 5 years ago and can't get it out of my mind. I was told it was the one John Wayne movie that was caught in a struggle between his heirs. That's why it isn't in relese. Absolutely has to be the finest movie ever made about aviation.
As far as "Top Gun"... it may be cheesey, but it sure inspired me. Especially when I needed inspiration.
If anybody can find a copy of "The High and The Mighty" please let me know where you got it. I was told it was the one John Wayne movie that was caught in a struggle between his heirs.
Not quite. It's being held up by Captain Gann's estate...but I'm not certain why.
You can't get a professional copy anywhere. I've tried. Maybe somebody on eBay has a pirated copy they'll sell you...not that I would ever condone such activity.
Nobody's mentioned Always, with Richard Dreyfuss, Brad Johnson, and Holly Hunter. It's not exactly E.K. Gann material, but it's still a fun movie.
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