Description:America gets its wings! Stewart is aviator Charles Lindbergh, and Billy Wilder directs this soaring tale of the first trans-Atlantic flight. James Stewart stars.
Billy Wilder's loving biographical portrait of Charles Lindbergh focuses ... Full Descriptionon the flying legend's courageous crossing of the Atlantic in a single-enAmerica gets its wings! Stewart is aviator Charles Lindbergh, and Billy Wilder directs this soaring tale of the first trans-Atlantic flight. James Stewart stars.
Billy Wilder's loving biographical portrait of Charles Lindbergh focuses ... Full Descriptionon the flying legend's courageous crossing of the Atlantic in a single-engine plane. Flashbacks show Lindbergh (James Stewart) learning his craft in the air force, barnstorming, and carrying mail in dangerously rickety early airplanes.
Wilder and Lindbergh were friends--even at the height of Lindbergh's fame, he took the public bus when he would come to visit Wilder at his home in Beverly Hills.
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Plot: Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Marc Connelly
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Michael M added this to a list 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Watched February 7th - TCM - Rewatch
"There were 200,000 people there that night, and when we came back home, there were 4 million people waiting." - Charles Lindbergh
One of the reasons I enjoy movies is I like to be taken back in time to see different events in history - and The Spirit Of St Louis let me visit one of the most famous events of the 20th century - Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean - The story of how it happened is told well and casting Jimmy Stewart as"
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