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Director:
Writers:
Frank Fenton (screenplay) and
William Wister Haines (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
22 February 1957 (USA) more
Tagline:
What A Guy Wayne ! more
Plot:
A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead. | add synopsis
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John Ford+John Wayne+Maureen O' Hara= Film Film Biopic more (22 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | John Wayne | ... | Frank W. 'Spig' Wead |
 | Dan Dailey | ... | 'Jughead' Carson |
 | Maureen O'Hara | ... | Min Wead |
| Ward Bond | ... | John Dodge |
| Ken Curtis | ... | John Dale Price |
| Edmund Lowe | ... | Adm. Moffett |
| Kenneth Tobey | ... | Capt. Herbert Allen Hazard |
| James Todd | ... | Jack Travis |
| Barry Kelley | ... | Capt. Jock Clark |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Manager |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Capt. Spear |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | Barton |
| Dorothy Jordan | ... | Rose Brentmann |
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110 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Mono (Westrex Recording System) | Perspecta Stereo
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Argentina:Atp | West Germany:12 (nf) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Finland:K-12 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | USA:Approved (PCA #18317) | Sweden:15
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The real Frank Wead grew noticeably balder as he got older (WWII era). In order to be accurate about that, this is the only film in which John Wayne appears without his toupee. more
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Anachronisms: When Frank "Spig" Wead is taking command of the aircraft carrier during WWII the car that drives up to the docked carrier is a 1950 or '51 Chevrolet or Pontiac yet the scene is supposed to be during the war, which ended in 1945. more
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John Dodge: I don't want a story just about ships and planes. I want it about the men who run them - how they live and think and talk. I want it from a pen dipped in salt water, not dry martinis. more
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Referenced in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Song of the Islands more
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The iconic director and his usual cast of players take on Naval Aviation in this look at a man who helped to advance navy aviation as John Wayne again looms on the screen bigger than life in the role of Frank "Spig" Wead, a pioneer of the navy air corps. Based on the autobiography of Wead the usual themes of adventure, patriotism and romance abound with stellar supporting roles with veteran actors like Ken Curtis, Dan Daily, and Ward Bond as a thinly veiled portrait of director Ford himself. Set against the background of World War II the film is about courage and commitment in a big way, and there really is not another actor who could have brought it to the screen with the believability that the "Duke" manages so easily. One of his finer roles.