[quote]The holidays being over (for me at least), it's time to come back to uploading. An addition to my short series of aviation pictures which is also Bill Wellman's last movie. Not his best but you see those WW 1 planes and a few budding young actors : Eastwood, Janssen as well as veterans such as Dalio and Paul Fix... The romantic interest is a rare French actress called Etchika Choureau who had a brief career mainly in the mid 50s[/quote]
LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE (1952)
(LA ESCUADRILLA LAFAYETTE)

DIRECTOR
William A. Wellman
GUIÓN
Albert Sidney Fleischman
William A. Wellman
CAST
Tab Hunter ... Thad Walker
Etchika Choureau ... Renée Beaulieu
Marcel Dalio ... Drillmaster
David Janssen ... Duke Sinclaire
Paul Fix ... U.S. General
Veola Vonn ... The Madam
Will Hutchins ... Dave Putnam
Clint Eastwood ... George Moseley
Robert Hover ... Dave Judd (as Bob Hover)
Tom Laughlin ... Arthur Blumenthal
Brett Halsey ... Frank Baylies
Henry Nakamura ... Jimmy
Maurice Marsac ... Sgt. Parris
Raymond Bailey ... Amos J. Walker
William Wellman Jr. ... Bill Wellman Sr.
Jody McCrea ... Tim Hitchcock
Denny Devine ... Lawrence 'Red' Scanlon (as Dennis Devine)
PRODUCTOR
William A. Wellman
MÚSICA ORIGINAL
Leonard Rosenman
FOTOGRAFIA
William H. Clothier
SINOPSIS
[quote]Though director William Wellman was attached to the Lafayette Flying Corps during WW1, many people believed that he was actually with the celebrated Lafayette Escadrille, and this 1958 actioner does little to dispel that belief. The film concentrates on a group of courageous young American aviators who, long before the USA's entry into the Great War, band together to fight the minions of the Kaiser in the skies of France. One of these reckless flyboys is Thad Walker (Tab Hunter), who arrives in Paris after being thrown out of his wealthy father's home. Joining the Escadrille with Walker are fellow expatriates Tom Hitchcock (Jody McCrea), Duke Sinclaire (David Janssen) and "Wild Bill" Wellman (played by the director's son, Bill Wellman Jr.). After a bit of parlez-vous with the local mademoiselles, Walker and his pals take to the air, and at this point, the film really gets off the ground (no pun intended). The spectacular aerial sequences are evocative of those in Wellman's silent classic Wings, though Lafayette Escadrille itself falls a bit short of classic status. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
La producción e idea del film es del propio director, quien encargó el guión a Albert Sidney Fleischman. En realidad es una especie de autobiografía que recuerda cómo un joven rebelde norteamericano cambió su vida gracias a que se alistó en la fuerza aérea francesa durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Allí, luchando contra los alemanes, descubrió el auténtico sentido del amor y la amistad. Bien rodada en sus escenas de acción, contiene numerosos detalles cómicos y dramáticos que le ocurrieron al director, aunque se nota algo de autocomplacencia en determinados momentos. Tras esta película, Wellman se retiró del mundo del cine falleciendo en 1975.
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runtime 1:28:54
Video : 638 Mo,
1004 Kbps, 25.0 fps,
res. 576*432 (4:3)
Xvid codec
Audio : 61 Mo,
96 Kbps, 32000 Hz,
2 channels
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