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The Amazing Howard Hughes is a american film of genre Drama directed by William A. Graham released in USA on 13 april 1977 with Tommy Lee Jones
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
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Add to a movie listThe Amazing Howard Hughes is a two-part 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh. The film was made a year after Hughes's death, in 1976, while aboard a private flight to Mexico.3453
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This film recounts the life and times of Howard Hughes, from his being a Hollywood producer and an aviator to a 1946 experimental plane crash that left him with a concussion that left him withActors
Tommy Lee Jones
(Howard Hughes)
Ed Flanders
(Noah Dietrich)
James Hampton
(Wilbur Peterson)
Lee Purcell
(Billie Dove)
Sorrell Booke
(Fiorello LaGuardia)
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