Flight Command (1940)
Directed by Frank Borzage · 116 min · Drama, War
4.4 TOPICAL score · #6,247 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
Flight Command (1940, directed by Frank Borzage) has a TOPICAL score of 4.4 - ranked 6,247 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and cast, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 5.9/10 (12 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 9 languages.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 5.9/10 (12 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 9 languages
- Still read620 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Robert Taylor (actor #1,790), Ruth Hussey (actor #1,465), Walter Pidgeon (actor #642), Paul Kelly