Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
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Title: The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
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Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Written by Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>
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aviation | atlantic ocean | year 1927 | transatlantic flight | paris france |Taglines:
The Story Behind the Story of Lindbergh's Incredible Flight to Paris! See more »Parents Guide:
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Reporter: [checking his copy] Here at the Garden City Hotel, less than a mile from Roosevelt Field... less than three-quarters of a mile from Roosevelt Field... everyone is waiting, as they have been now for seven days and nights, waiting for the rain to stop...
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Music by Abe Holzmann
Played during the aerial circus
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On the morning of the flight, Lindbergh was in a close race to be the first into the air. His most pressing threat came from, Clarence Chamberlin, and his copilot whom, at a nearby field, had a fully prepared, record breaking, Wright/Bellanca, just waiting for clearance to takeoff. Funny thing, that copilot was, Charles A. Levine, the same smart mouthed, bald headed, President of Columbia Aircraft, who had only months earlier refused to sell Lindbergh an airplane. See more »Goofs
When "mirror girl" is riding the train home to Philadelphia, the background scenery is going north, not south. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Reporter: [checking his copy] Here at the Garden City Hotel, less than a mile from Roosevelt Field... less than three-quarters of a mile from Roosevelt Field... everyone is waiting, as they have been now for seven days and nights, waiting for the rain to stop...
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Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (2006) See more »Soundtracks
Spirit of Independence(uncredited)
Music by Abe Holzmann
Played during the aerial circus
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20 April 1957 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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This is as close to a one-man show as you're ever going to see on film as Jimmy Stewart dominates the picture while all others just have bit roles.
I found it interesting because I find Charles Lindberg's feat amazing and worth watching. I also enjoyed the widescreen picture. I'm surprised it's not available on DVD. The most amazing part of Lindberg's feat, from what I discovered watching the movie, was that he went 30 hours without sleep before he even took off! To stay awake for the entire trip to Paris after that was incredible.
To keep the viewers' interest, the film flashes back a number of times to Lindberg's earlier days and most of that is pretty interesting. Yes, there are some lulls in here and the movie could have been shortened from its 138 minutes but Stewart does a nice job of entertaining us, as he usually did.
I do have one question, one complaint and one suggestion. My question is, "Why is there no mention of his wife, Anne Morrow?" Odd, they totally left her out of this. She was famous in her own right.
My complaint is the emphasis - it's brought up twice in case you missed it the first time - on Lindberg not believing in prayer, only the things he could see. Pagan Hollywood just has to get their agenda in, and much of it began in the 1950s when moral restrictions began to slowly ease. This is just one more example.
They also left out what happened right after the flight, thus making the film more of a story about the voyage than of Lindberg's aviation career. Too bad, because, as many of you might know, his son's kidnapping is one of the biggest stories of that era. My suggestion then is that a full biography, with the emphasis on this flight across the Atlantic, might have been a better way to go. I think you would see that with a re-make, along with a faster- moving film.