The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
152 audience votes
Key crew
- Billy WilderDirector
- Billy WilderScreenplay
- Wendell MayesScreenplay
- Franz WaxmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- James StewartCharles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh
- Murray HamiltonBud Gurney
- Patricia SmithMirror Girl
- Bartlett RobinsonBenjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.
- Marc ConnellyFather Hussman
- Arthur SpaceDonald Hall, Chief Engineer Ryan Airlines
- Charles WattsO.W. Schultz, Salesman Atlas Suspender Co.
- Erville AldersonBurt (uncredited)
- Frances AllenMother from Oklahoma (uncredited)
- David AlpertClerk (uncredited)
- Walter BaconCrowd Member in France (uncredited)
- Gordon BarnesReporter (uncredited)
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Themes
based on true storyflighthistorical figureaviationairplane crashtransatlanticaviatoraircraft factory