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Flight Command is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Rosson released in USA on 27 december 1940 with Robert Taylor
Flight Command (1940)
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Add to a movie listFlight Command is a 1940 American film about a cocky U.S. Navy pilot who has problems with his new squadron and falls for the wife of his commander. It stars Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey and Walter Pidgeon. Flight Command has the distinction of often being credited as the first Hollywood film glorifying the American military to be released after the outbreak of World War II in Europe, a year before the U.S. entered the conflict.
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Hotshot Ensign Alan Drake (Robert Taylor), fresh from the flying academy at Pensacola, Florida, wants to be accepted by the pilots of an elite service corps, nicknamed the "Hellcats", to which he has been posted. He gets off to a bad start, being forced to ditch his aircraft in heavy fog and mistaking Squadron Commander Billy Gary's (Walter Pidgeon) wife Lorna (Ruth Hussey) as a possible date. She is attracted to the young man, which leads to friction in her relationship with her husband.Actors
Robert Taylor
(Ens. Alan Drake)
Ruth Hussey
(Lorna Gray)
Walter Pidgeon
(Squadron Commander Billy Gary)
Paul Kelly
(Lieut. Cmdr. 'Dusty' Rhodes)
Shepperd Strudwick
(Lieut. Jerry Banning)
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