Aviation Movies - your top 5?

In article
s.rr.com, john smith writes
No one mentioned

"A Guy Named Joe"
Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable

"Flying Tigers"
John Wayne

"Operation Crossbow"

Or Red Flyer (1950s film) about a Russian test pilot
The first of the Few (1940s)
Malta Story, about a Spit 9 photo-recce pilot.
--
Mike Lindsay

"news.ozemail.com.au" wrote in message
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I want to stock up on some aviation themed videos. Would anyone want to
volunteer their top five aviation movies? Mine a

1. Top Gun.
2. Angels One 5.
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. The Blue Max.

Most aviation related movies have a war theme but there must be
interesting non military movies or documentaries with realistic flying
action.



In no particular order,

The Blue Max (great tale of honor/dishonor)

Catch 22 (Best opener of all movies)

Tora!Tora!Tora! (Took my first date to it in 7th grade)

Always (I could belive in angels more than a guy not giving Marg
Helgenberger a second look, Goodman was great)

Tuskegee Airmen (shows how "bleached" my history books were)

Marty

"Alpha_77DX" wrote in message
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"news.ozemail.com.au" wrote in message
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I want to stock up on some aviation themed videos. Would anyone want to
volunteer their top five aviation movies? Mine a

1. Top Gun.
2. Angels One 5.
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. The Blue Max.

Most aviation related movies have a war theme but there must be
interesting non military movies or documentaries with realistic flying
action.


I like warbirds

1. Battle of Britain. Lots of Spitfires and Hurricanes.
2. 12 O'clock High. B17's doing what B17's do.
3. The Dam Busters. Real Lancasters, Barnes Wallis, a true story, say no
more!
4. 633 Squadron. Lots of Mosquito action, plus John Mellion. Trivia from
IMDB- Cliff Robertson, an accomplished pilot, wanted to buy one of the
Mosquitoes after filming had finished, as he was so impressed with the
type. He was not permitted to do this but he later bought a Spitfire Mk IX
which he owned until the late 1990s.
5. Con Air. Just a cool movie set on an aeroplane.

I remember seeing another Cliff Robertson movie titled "The Pilot".
He acted the part of a respected and experienced airline pilot who was a sly
grogger.
Frank Converse was his young co-pilot who eventually refused to fly with
him.
Might be an interesting one to see again.

Cliff, if I remember correctly, was given the cold shoulder by Hollywood for
taking a stand against the establishment, and consequently was blacklisted.
Pity - always thought he was a convincing actor.

John

news.ozemail.com.au wrote:
I want to stock up on some aviation themed videos. Would anyone want to
volunteer their top five aviation movies? Mine a

1. Top Gun.
2. Angels One 5.
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. The Blue Max.

Most aviation related movies have a war theme but there must be interesting
non military movies or documentaries with realistic flying action.




Flying Leathernecks: Starring John Wayne.

Real footage from BAttle of Guadalcanal using Grumman Hellcats, Avenger
and PBY Catalina. Spectacular attacks on Japanese Convoy using missiles
and Torpedo's

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:05:57 -0500, "Marty" wrote:


In no particular order,

The Blue Max (great tale of honor/dishonor)

Catch 22 (Best opener of all movies)

Tora!Tora!Tora! (Took my first date to it in 7th grade)

Always (I could belive in angels more than a guy not giving Marg
Helgenberger a second look, Goodman was great)

She's still worth more than a second look. First caught my eye in China Beach.
Whoops, getting seriously O/T here :-(

Tuskegee Airmen (shows how "bleached" my history books were)

Marty

My top 5:
1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
2. Flight of the Phoenix [old version].
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. Apocalypse Now .

The Monk

Sla#s wrote:


Bird of prey. (I love Lamas!)
...

And for the best ever aerial shot: Where the Lama breaks through the roof in
the opening secquence of Bird of Prey 2.
...

http://www.imdb.com lists several movies with the title _Bird of Prey_
and one _Bird of Prey 2_, but none with Lamas.

I (barely) remember _Birds of Prey_ with David Janssen from 1973.

In particular there is a scene in which he is riding on the wing of
a biplane while it banks over and dives into a canyon. Fantastic!

--

FF

In article .com,
Flyingmonk writes
My top 5:
1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

A truly scrumptious movie...

2. Flight of the Phoenix [old version].
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. Apocalypse Now .

The Monk

Cheers,

Dave

--
Dave Eadsforth

Actually you are right, I'd forgotten DBW. That's a superb film and very
much undersold which was a pity. But I suspect the Americans didn't know
anywhere mentioned in the film.

I also really enjoyed Fly Away Home, the one about the Geese and
microloghts. Good one that.

David


"Paul Catley" wrote in message
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"Ian Donaldson" wrote in message
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Try this list!

http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm

I don't know how many other movies are missing from that list, but these
a

1. Pearl Harbor (yeah I know, but it doesn't say *good* aviation movies)
2. Dark Blue World
3. Thirteen Days (not an aviation movie, but some rather nice CGI'd scenes
of a U-2 spy plane and a low level surveillance run by a couple of F-8s)

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Paul

Perhaps I missed it, but I don't recall seeing Fate is the Hunter on this list.

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