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6.7/10   1,255 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Frank Fenton (screenplay) and
William Wister Haines (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
22 February 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
What A Guy Wayne ! more
Plot:
A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead. | add synopsis
User Comments:
An excellent "non-war" movie about people who make winning wars possible. more (22 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

John Wayne ... Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
Dan Dailey ... 'Jughead' Carson

Maureen O'Hara ... Min Wead
Ward Bond ... John Dodge
Ken Curtis ... John Dale Price
Edmund Lowe ... Adm. Moffett
Kenneth Tobey ... Capt. Herbert Allen Hazard
James Todd ... Jack Travis
Barry Kelley ... Capt. Jock Clark
Sig Ruman ... Manager
Henry O'Neill ... Capt. Spear
Willis Bouchey ... Barton
Dorothy Jordan ... Rose Brentmann
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Additional Details

Runtime:
110 min
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System) | Perspecta Stereo

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
According to director John Ford, "Everything in the picture was true. The fight in the club - throwing the cake - actually happened. I can verify that as an eyewitness. I ducked it. And the plane landing in the swimming pool right in the middle of the Admiral's tea - that really happened." more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the first scene where Lieutenant Junior Grade Wead is flying with Captain Hazzard, on the ground Captain Hazzard is in the front seat, but in the air Wead is in the front seat. more
Quotes:
John Dodge: I don't want a story just about ships and planes. I want it about the men who run them - how they live and think and talk. I want it from a pen dipped in salt water, not dry martinis. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Mama Inez more

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10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
An excellent "non-war" movie about people who make winning wars possible., 28 July 2002
8/10
Author: hold2file from Atlanta, GA

Despite the title and the time frame (and the misunderstanding of the movie by other reviewers), this is not a typical war movie. This movie is really a biography and personal study of the obsessiveness and dedication that is necessary in the technological nature of warfare today. In one respect it is too bad that the movie stars John Wayne because the expectation is that it would feature a "gung ho" performance. Instead it is an amazing acting effort by Wayne as a suffering, crippled, insensitive Navy officer and author whose vision and commitment made much of the Naval air force possible. It is an excellent performance by Wayne and almost more of a "stretch" for him than Dustin Hoffman portraying an autistic "Rainman."

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