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Flight for Freedom is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lothar Mendes released in USA on 14 april 1943 with Rosalind Russell
Flight for Freedom (1943)
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Add to a movie listFlight for Freedom (aka Stand to Die) is a 1943 American drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray and Herbert Marshall. Film historians and Earhart scholars consider Flight for Freedom an "a-clef" version of the Amelia Earhart life story, concentrating on the sensational aspects of her disappearance during her 1937 world flight. The film's ending speculated that the main character's disappearance was connected to a secret mission on behalf of the U.S. government.
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Tonie Carter (Rosalind Russell) is a well-known aviatrix who is fighting the prejudice against women pilots in the aviation establishment of the 1930s. One of her rivals, pilot Randy Britton (Fred MacMurray), is attracted to her. After setting flight records, Tonie embarks on a solo circumnavigation of the globe.Actors
Rosalind Russell
(Tonie Carter)
Fred MacMurray
(Randy Britton)
Herbert Marshall
(Paul Turner)
Eduardo Ciannelli
(Johnny Salvini)
Walter Kingsford
(Admiral Graves)
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