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A wonderful & entertaining movies about the real life of Commander Frank "Spig" Wead, played by john Wayne, who fought physically, militarily & politically to have the Navy be given aircraft carriers from which to fly planes. Along with Wayne's favorites Maureen O'Hara (as his wife "Min"), Dan Dailey (as his life-long sidekick) & Ken Curtis, Wead is driven by his passon for the Navy, sometimes at the expense of family & friends. There's a great lesson here. Also, Wayne's life-long friend Ward Bond plays a characterization of John Ford himself, as Ford was the director. Note the prevalence of just about everyone smoking cigarettes! You won't be disappointed. Enjoy!!
If you know about aviation and some of the people involved in Aviation then this film is great to watch. I wasn't so much interested in the story but in the airplanes used in the movie. I was richly rewarded with some of the OLD airplanes (that are no longer flying)and was thrilled to see pre-world war 2 airplanes flying. But as the movie/story plays along I greatly enjoyed the acting it protrayed. Some of it is comical. John Wayne has always been a good actor in his flying movies and this one rates just as good as his other ones. I never seen this movie and I was so entertained by it. You don't see much acting like this in today's world and it would awaken your folk's memory who grew up in the 40's and 50's. Toward the end of the movie I enjoyed seeing the Navy ships used and enjoyed our former protector of the United States Navy. A very good film to watch.Vollständige Rezension lesen
For shear escapism this little know movie staring John Wayne, Dan Dailey and Maureen O'Hara is an excellent film. As a Navy film it takes place during the infancy of Naval Avaiation centering around Wayne's true life character Cmdr "Spig" Wead and the personal and professional adventures he undergoes as Naval Aviation becomes established. The diretion is top notch by John Ford. The romance with Maureen O'Hara is swomewhat similar to The Quiet Man movie they made together earlier. Dan Dailey provides supurbe support as Jughead. If there is any weakness in the film it is a tendency to become a little like a soap opera at times. These periods however are short. An excellent entertaining movie.
My husband and I are big John Wayne fans and I stumbled onto this movie one night on regular tv but of course in the middle and he has mentioned several times he'd like to see it from the beginning so I bought it for our anniversary
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A must have for John Wayne fans. Good movie and lots of action with the Duke.
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One of John Waynne's best. The fact that it was based on a true story makes it more special.
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Wonderful biography of John Ford's friend, Admiral Spig Wead. In the true form of the Duke he lives the part and you live the part with him. This is one of these truly wonderful films that have no bad language and everyone can watch this without being worried about the language or bedroom scenes. In other words, they just don't make movies like this anymore, oh so sad that they don't. The plot is wonderful, so are the Duke and Maureen O'Hara, if you would like some wonderfully nostalgia by all means buy this for your collection.
Love The Wings of Eagles...
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This is a GREAT OLD MOVIE! Hadn't seen it in a long time and it was very entertaining to watch it again. It shall be a prize in my collection of John Wayne movies.
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What you see is what you get, great eBayer, and thanks for using Media Mail!
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