Turner Classic Movies running aviation marathon now.

[Dave Krall CFII]

It's running through the 4 of July!

 

[tonycondon]

well i know what im doing tonight

 

[Frank Browne]

well i know what im doing tonight

Oh yeah! My DVR is chock full of aviation movies. Well except for a couple.

 

[KennyFlys]

I'm gonna have to set up my Media Center box on Logmein.com so I can add such things remotely when I see you guys mention them.

Here's the schedule through the night:

8:00pm Spirit of St. Louis, The (1957)
Charles Lindbergh risks his life to complete his historic flight from New York to Paris.
Cast: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith. Dir: Billy Wilder. C-135 mins, TV-G

10:30pm Gallant Journey (1946)
An aviation pioneer fights his family's objections to invent a flying machine.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-86 mins, TV-PG

12:00am Above And Beyond (1952)
The pilot who helped drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima struggles with the demands of the dangerous mission.
Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore. Dir: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. BW-122 mins, TV-PG

2:15am Wings Of Eagles, The (1957)
Biography of Frank "Spig" Wead, the pioneer aviator who turned to writing after being grounded by an accident.
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond. Dir: John Ford. C-110 mins, TV-PG

4:15am Flying Irishman, The (1939)
True story of "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who set out to cross the U.S. and ended up in Ireland.
Cast: Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong. Dir: Leigh Jason. BW-71 mins, TV-G

 

[tonycondon]

8:00pm Spirit of St. Louis, The (1957)
Charles Lindbergh risks his life to complete his historic flight from New York to Paris.
Cast: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith. Dir: Billy Wilder. C-135 mins, TV-G

4:15am Flying Irishman, The (1939)
True story of "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who set out to cross the U.S. and ended up in Ireland.
Cast: Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong. Dir: Leigh Jason. BW-71 mins, TV-G

dang too bad i cant stay up all night. do you know if these times are Eastern? I gotta see these two...

 

[tonycondon]

oh wonderful, ill have to set the alarm for 3:15 AM, cant wait! if only i wasnt planning on flying tomorrow id just stay up all night.

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

oh wonderful, ill have to set the alarm for 3:15 AM, cant wait! if only i wasnt planning on flying tomorrow id just stay up all night.

Got some 8 hour VHS blanks?

 

[tonycondon]

yea ill probably tape them too Dave, but I wanna actually SEE them! plus what else is there to do at 3 in th emorning on the 4th of July?

 

[mikea]

oh wonderful, ill have to set the alarm for 3:15 AM, cant wait! if only i wasnt planning on flying tomorrow id just stay up all night.

http://dynamic.tivo.com/2.0.asp

 

[tonycondon]

ship time just isnt quite good enough mike

 

[Frank Browne]

8:00pm Spirit of St. Louis, The (1957)

10:30pm Gallant Journey (1946) BW-86 mins, TV-PG

12:00am Above And Beyond (1952)

2:15am Wings Of Eagles, The (1957)

4:15am Flying Irishman, The (1939)

A veritable Bonanza of aviation movies!

nyuk nyuk nyuk

 

[t0r0nad0]

A veritable Bonanza of aviation movies!

nyuk nyuk nyuk

Hey, Piper down if you're going to make puns like that! I tell you, listening to some people is a real Beech!

 

[tonycondon]

lindbergh just made ireland
what a good movie

 

[Shipoke]

Alright set my puter to record these movies, Nice thing about having a Media Center puter, Missed Spirit of St Loius but , I will have the restafter that. Thanks Dave
Dave G

 

[TangoWhiskey]

Thanks for pointing this out... caught the end of Spirit of St. Louis with Jimmy Stewart, which I'd seen before, and have the DVR set up to record the others, which I've not seen before.

 

[Frank Browne]

lindbergh just made ireland
what a good movie

Nah...it's a great movie! One of my all time favorites!

 

[Frank Browne]

Hey, Piper down if you're going to make puns like that! I tell you, listening to some people is a real Beech!

LOL! Good job!

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

Now the Duke is trying to land an early seaplane and Maureen gets wet. Cool.
TCM runs an Av marathon every 3-4th I hear.

 

[tonycondon]

Flying Irishman starts in a minute!

 

[ScottM]

Nah...it's a great movie! One of my all time favorites!

Jimmy made good movies and a he made good aviation ones too! I also liked him in Strategic Air Command. While it is a bit of a recruiting movie it was still done very well. The interior shots of the B36 where really cool!

 

[Frank Browne]

Jimmy made good movies and a he made good aviation ones too! I also liked him in Strategic Air Command. While it is a bit of a recruiting movie it was still done very well. The interior shots of the B36 where really cool!

Absolutely! That is another of my all time favorites. The in-flight scenes of the B-36 are just stunning!

 

[mikea]

I got all of them after "Spirt of St. Louis" on the TiVo, and I watched the end of SoSTL.

I liked the Paul Tibbets movie, "Above and Beyond" , although Robert Taylor didn't look to be one the best all time actors. It had a moderate amount of Hollywood melodrama, but it was good.


I was amazed that they started out saying that the movie was due to declassification of secret documents, and it seemed that they DID have the real story about the bomb technology, more than I've seen in any other movie of that time.

The oscilloscope with the 1600 foot detonation line on it was pretty dumb, though, and I guess early on they never got within a couple hundred feet by chance, huh?

As they said, Tibbets acted as technical advisor, so that was why it was pretty accurate.

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

Flying Irishman starts in a minute!

Now there's a real pilot for you, building experience and hours all the time to get into the "airlines", learning by his mistakes, and never lieing.

 

[gprellwitz]

Note that they are having aviation marathons EVERY TUESDAY this month! On the 10th:
6:00am

Flying Fleet, The (1929)
In this silent film, a naval cadet braves a perilous trans-Pacific flight for love.
Cast: Ramon Novarro, Anita Page, Ralph Graves. Dir: George Hill. BW-87 mins, TV-G

7:30am

Dirigible (1931)
Romantic rivals vie to be the first to fly to the South Pole.
Cast: Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-100 mins, TV-G

9:30am

Last Flight, The (1931)
Four disillusioned Army buddies roam post-WWI Europe.
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-76 mins, TV-G

11:00am

Central Airport (1933)
A World War I flyer can only find work as chauffeur to a lady sky diver.
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers, Tom Brown. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-72 mins, TV-G

12:15pm

God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
A flyer dismissed as too old fights to prove himself against the Japanese.
Cast: Dennis Morgan, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale. Dir: Robert Florey. BW-88 mins, TV-PG

2:00pm

China Clipper (1936)
A flyer sacrifices everything to open a transpacific airline.
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Beverly Roberts, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-89 mins, TV-PG

3:30pm

West Point Of The Air (1935)
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Cast: Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan. Dir: Richard Rosson. BW-89 mins, TV-G

5:00pm

Secret Service Of The Air (1939)
A government agent battles smugglers.
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Foy, Jr., John Litel. Dir: Noel Smith. BW-61 mins, TV-PG

 

[gprellwitz]

And on the 17th:
6:00am

Flight (1929)
A Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse.
Cast: Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-112 mins, TV-PG

8:00am

Flight Commander (1930)
A hotshot World War I flyer almost cracks under the pressure of sending his men on perilous missions.
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Neil Hamilton. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-108 mins, TV-G

10:00am

Flight Command (1940)
A cocky cadet tries to prove himself during flight training.
Cast: Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-116 mins, TV-PG

12:00pm

Flight Lieutenant (1942)
A disgraced pilot sets out to regain his son's respect.
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes. Dir: Sidney Salkow. BW-80 mins, TV-PG

1:30pm

Women In The Wind (1939)
Personal conflicts flare between competitors in a women's air race.
Cast: Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory. Dir: John Farrow. BW-63 mins, TV-G

2:45pm

Wings And The Woman (1941)
Two real-life aviation pioneers try to find happiness in marriage.
Cast: Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman. Dir: Herbert Wilcox. BW-95 mins, TV-G

4:30pm

Christopher Strong (1933)
An aviatrix's affair with a married man could cost her her career.
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke. Dir: Dorothy Arzner. BW-78 mins, TV-PG

 

[gprellwitz]

and the 24th:

6:00am

Winning Your Wings (1942)
James Stewart hosts this classic Air Force recruiting film.
BW-18 mins, TV-G

6:30am

Bombardier (1943)
Military officers compete for the same woman while training pilots for war.
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley. Dir: Richard Wallace. BW-99 mins, TV-G

8:30am

Devil Dogs Of The Air (1935)
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-85 mins, TV-PG

10:00am

Fighter Squadron (1948)
A dedicated flyer pushes himself and those around him during a perilous World War II campaign.
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson. Dir: Raoul Walsh. C-95 mins, TV-PG

12:00pm

Dive Bomber (1941)
A crusading scientist fights to prevent bomber pilots from blacking out.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Alexis Smith. Dir: Michael Curtiz. C-132 mins, TV-G

2:15pm

Dawn Patrol, The (1938)
A flight commander in France almost cracks under the pressure of sending men to their deaths.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-103 mins, TV-PG

4:00pm

Command Decision (1948)
A senior officer faces the horror of sending his men on suicide missions over Germany during the last days of World War II.
Cast: Clark Gable, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-112 mins, TV-PG

6:00pm

Flying Leathernecks (1951)
A World War II Marine officer drives his men mercilessly during the battle for Guadalcanal.
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Jay C. Flippen. Dir: Nicholas Ray. C-102 mins, TV-PG

 

[gprellwitz]

and the 31st.

6:00am

Murder In The Air (1940)
A secret service agent fights to keep enemy spies away from top secret government plans.
Cast: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, James Stephenson. Dir: Lewis Seiler. BW-55 mins, TV-PG

7:00am

Sky Murder (1940)
Detective Nick Carter tries to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder.
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Kaaren Verne. Dir: George B. Seitz. BW-72 mins, TV-PG

8:30am

Lost Squadron, The (1932)
Veteran flyers from World War I find work as movie stuntmen.
Cast: Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Erich von Stroheim. Dir: George Archainbaud. BW-79 mins, TV-G

10:00am

Hollywood Cowboy (1937)
A vacationing Western star signs on to help a female rancher fight off bandits.
Cast: George O'Brien, Cecilia Parker, Maude Eburne. Dir: Ewing Scott. C-64 mins, TV-G

11:15am

Flying Wild (1941)
When he gets a job at an aviation plant, a street tough stumbles onto an enemy spy ring.
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Donald Haines. Dir: William West. BW-61 mins, TV-G

12:30pm

High Flyers (1938)
Two men pose as flyers and get mixed up with jewel smugglers.
Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Lupe Velez. Dir: Edward F. Cline. BW-70 mins, TV-G

2:00pm

Flying Deuces, The (1939)
Two bumblers join the Foreign Legion to forget a beautiful woman.
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker. Dir: A. Edward Sutherland. BW-65 mins, TV-G

3:15pm

Sky's The Limit, The (1943)
A pilot on leave falls for a pretty news photographer.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley. Dir: Edward H. Griffith. BW-89 mins, TV-G

4:45pm

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A group of greedy clowns tears up the countryside in search of buried treasure.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar. Dir: Stanley Kramer. C-182 mins, TV-G

(Yeah, I know the last one isn't aviation, but it's a fun movie!)

 

[ScottM]

I am not sure that:

4:45pm

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A group of greedy clowns tears up the countryside in search of buried treasure.

is really an aviation movie

 

[gprellwitz]

Scott, what did the line right under that movie say? Hint:

(Yeah, I know the last one isn't aviation, but it's a fun movie!)

 

[Frank Browne]

Fighter Squadron (1948)
A dedicated flyer pushes himself and those around him during a perilous World War II campaign.
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson. Dir: Raoul Walsh. C-95 mins, TV-PG

Most excellent movie! Lots and lots of P-47 footage. Loosely based on the real life 4th Fighter Group. (Highest scoring fighter group in the ETO)

 

[ScottM]

Scott, what did the line right under that movie say? Hint:

YOu didn't expect me to read everything did you??

 

[KennyFlys]

You didn't expect me to read everything did you??

Typical, typical, typical... dang Dimocrat! Never, ever let the facts get in the way of your interpretation of the truth.



(For the non-politically-minded or otherwise ignorant individuals, don't get your panties in a wad. This is strictly a fun poke at Scott.)

 

[121Dispatch]

Good list of movies...I'm surprised The Great Waldo Pepper didn't make the list...I haven't seen that one in years.

 

[ScottM]

Good list of movies...I'm surprised The Great Waldo Pepper didn't make the list...I haven't seen that one in years.

Or my favorite old movie, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.......


they go uppity up up they go downzy down down....

 

[mikea]

It would be a good idea for us to give TCM positive feedback on this aviation marathon. Narrowcast cable channels don't have huge audiences. If we gave them a few thousand more viewers it would have a huge impact.

 

[ScottM]

Did anyone, besides me, just veg out and watch the Mythbusters marathon?

 

[Frank Browne]

Did anyone, besides me, just veg out and watch the Mythbusters marathon?

Yep...with a sporadic Twilight Zone thrown in for good measure.

 

[KennyFlys]

Yep...with a sporadic Twilight Zone thrown in for good measure.

I know some who grew up with (in) the Twilight Zone.

 

[Frank Browne]

I know some who grew up with (in) the Twilight Zone.

Are you kidding? I'm still waiting to grow out of it! *do do do do do do do do*

 

[mikea]

Good list of movies...I'm surprised The Great Waldo Pepper didn't make the list...I haven't seen that one in years.

Or my favorite old movie, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.......


they go uppity up up they go downzy down down....

Turner only has the MGM movies that Ted bought in the library. If they're not MGM they might show up on AMC, although they long ago gave up on the "Classic" part of their name.