Flight Lieutenant (1942)
Flying like angels! Fighting like demons! Loving like men!
A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with.
- Date of release
- 1942-07-09
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Sidney Salkow
Casting
- Pat O'Brien — Samuel J. 'Sam' Doyle
- Glenn Ford — Danny Doyle
- Evelyn Keyes — Susie Thompson
- Jonathan Hale — Joseph Sanford
- Lloyd Bridges — Cadet William "Bill" Robinson
- Hugh Beaumont — Cadet John McGinnis
- Marcel Dalio — Marcel Faulet
- Douglas Croft — Danny Doyle - as a boy
Interesting facts
Flight Lieutenant is a 1942 American drama war film starring Pat O'Brien as Sam Doyle, a disgraced commercial pilot who works to regain the respect of his son against the backdrop of World War II. Its advertising slogan was "roaring with thrills, throbbing with romance" with the love interest provided by Evelyn Keyes as Susie Thompson.
Production
Production dates for Flight Lieutenant were from March 16 to April 18, 1942.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Flyboys 2006 · ★ 6.5
- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942 · ★ 6.6
- Most 2003 · ★ 7.3
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds 1972 · ★ 7.3
- Inseparable 2012 · ★ 6.1
- Three Christs 2017 · ★ 6.7
- Reach for the Sky 1956 · ★ 6.9
- Blue Thunder 1983 · ★ 6.3
- No Highway in the Sky 1951 · ★ 7.0
- The Aviator 2004 · ★ 7.2
- Courage Under Fire 1996 · ★ 6.6
- On a Wing and a Prayer 2023 · ★ 5.9