God Is My Co-Pilot

God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)

Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.

Date of release
1945-04-07
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Action, Adventure, War
Director
Robert Florey

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: God is My Co-pilot
  • Filmed in: Arizona

God Is My Co-Pilot is a 1945 American black-and-white biographical war film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Robert Buckner, directed by Robert Florey, that stars Dennis Morgan and co-stars Dane Clark and Raymond Massey. The screenplay by Abem Finkel and Peter Milne is based on the 1943 autobiography of the same name by Robert Lee Scott Jr.. It recounts Scott's service with the Flying Tigers and the United States Army Air Forces in China and Burma during World War II.

Production

With the cooperation of the US Army Air Forces, the principal photography took place in July–August 1944 at Luke Auxiliary One airfield in Arizona. They filmed Training Command Curtiss P-40Es and Fs, some one dozen North American B-25Gs and various other training aircraft helped create a busy sky. But five airmen died in a midair collision.

The Warner Brothers' Ranch near Los Angeles was used as the airfield seen in the film's opening sequence at the American Volunteer Group (AVG) base Kunming. There a trio of full-scale P-40 mock-ups, built several years earlier for the 1942 Republic film, Flying Tigers, are visible in the background, along with two P-40Es reclaimed from the AAF Reclamation Depot in San Diego.

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