Winged Victory

Winged Victory (1944)

Presented by 20th Century-Fox in Association with the U. S.Army Air Forces

Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.

Date of release
1944-12-22
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
George Cukor

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Winged Victory

Winged Victory is a 1944 American war drama film directed by George Cukor, a joint effort of 20th Century-Fox and the U.S. Army Air Forces. Based upon the 1943 play of the same name by Moss Hart, who also wrote the screenplay, the film opened only after the play's theatre run. The film version of Winged Victory used many of the Broadway cast, who were brought to Hollywood.

Production

Winged Victory entered principal photography on June 15, 1944, and wrapped production on September 25, 1944. The United States Army Air Forces provided 14 technical advisers to the production company. The advisers were able to provide information on training, graduation exercises and even combat experience. Included in the group of pilots was a chaplain and flight surgeon.

The aircraft seen in Winged Victory include 27 Consolidated B-24J Liberator bombers featured in the combat scenes and 55 Vultee BT-13A Valiant as well as numerous Cessna AT-17 Bobcat trainers. A number of Curtiss P-40N Warhawk fighters were also seen.

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