Flyboys (2006)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Tony Bill

Writers (WGA):

Phil Sears (screenplay) &
Blake T. Evans (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

22 September 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War

Tagline:

Inspired by a true story

Plot:

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

Plot Keywords:

American | France | Pilot | Training | Military

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

US Showtimes:

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Cast

James Franco	...	Blaine Rawlings
Scott Hazell	...	Cinema Usher
Mac McDonald	...	Sheriff Detweiller
Philip Winchester	...	William Jensen
Todd Boyce	...	Mr. Jensen
Karen Ford	...	Mrs. Jensen
Ruth Bradley	...	Laura
Abdul Salis	...	Eugene Skinner
Jean-Philippe Écoffey	...	Skinner's trainer
Tim Pigott-Smith	...	Mr. Lowry
Tyler Labine	...	Briggs Lowry
Gail Downey	...	Mrs. Lowry
David Ellison	...	Eddie Beagle
Jean Reno	...	Capt. Thenault
Augustin Legrand	...	L.T. Giroux
Keith McErlean	...	Vernon Toddman
Martin Henderson	...	Reed Cassidy
Shaka	...	Himself - the Lion
Lex Shrapnel	...	Grant
Christopher Snell	...	Bartender
Jennifer Decker	...	Lucienne
Kate Robbins	...	Clarise
Christien Anholt	...	Higgins
Pip Pickering	...	Nunn
Barry McGee	...	Dewitt
Michael Jibson	...	Lyle Porter
Gunnar Winbergh	...	The Black Falcon
Ian Rose	...	Wolfert
Daniel Rigby	...	Ives
Kyle Hensher-Smith	...	Jacques
Lauren Downing	...	Marie
Hayley Downing	...	Marie
Adrien Boublil	...	Luc
Jake Canuso	...	French Infantryman
Eric Seror	...	Doctor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ralf Rueller	...	German soldier (uncredited)

Directed by
Tony Bill

Writing credits (WGA)
Phil Sears		(screenplay) &
Blake T. Evans		(screenplay) and
David S. Ward		(screenplay)
Blake T. Evans		(story)

Produced by
David Brown	....	executive producer
James Clayton	....	executive producer
Dean Devlin	....	producer
Marc Frydman	....	producer
Phillip M. Goldfarb	....	executive producer
Rachel Olschan	....	associate producer
Kearie Peak	....	co-producer
Duncan Reid	....	executive producer
Marc Roskin	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Trevor Rabin

Cinematography by
Henry Braham		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Chris Blunden
Ron Rosen

Casting by
Daniel Hubbard
John Hubbard
Ros Hubbard

Production Design by
Charles Wood

Art Direction by
Ray Chan		(supervising art director)
Philip Elton
Matthew Gray

Set Decoration by
Eliza Solesbury

Costume Design by
Nic Ede

Makeup Department
Karen Cohen	....	hair crowd supervisor
Karen Cohen	....	makeup crowd supervisor
Patrice Iva	....	hair stylist
Carmel Jackson	....	hair stylist
Carmel Jackson	....	makeup artist
Graham Johnston	....	hair stylist
Graham Johnston	....	makeup designer
Lorna McGowan	....	hair stylist
Lorna McGowan	....	makeup artist
Laura McIntosh	....	makeup artist
Vivienne Simpson	....	hair trainee
Vivienne Simpson	....	makeup trainee

Production Management
Tania Blunden	....	post-production supervisor (as Tania Windsor Blunden)
Brian Donovan	....	unit production manager
Steve Harvey	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Paul Bennett	....	third assistant director
David Daniels	....	first assistant director: gimbal unit
Toby Hosking	....	second assistant director
Barney Hughes	....	second assistant director: gimbal unit
Vicky Marks	....	third assistant director
Andrew McEwan	....	second assistant director: crowd
Alex Oakley	....	first assistant director: aerial unit
Keith Roberts	....	first assistant director
Marc Roskin	....	second unit director
Gareth Tandy	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Ravi Bansal	....	concept illustrator
Mark Bartholomew	....	assistant art director
Steve Bohan	....	construction manager
Alex Boswell	....	props
John Botton	....	props
Antonio Calvo-Dominguez	....	draftsman
Graham Chalk	....	set dresser
Roy Chapman	....	chargehand dressing props
Lisa Chugg	....	production buyer
Jordan Crockett	....	draughtsman
Graham Dale	....	stand-by props
Romek Delmata	....	illustrator
Paul Duff	....	supervising carpenter
David E. Duncan	....	storyboard artist
Colin Ellis	....	props
Jools Faiers	....	graphic designer
Laurent Ferrie	....	drapesman
Martin Foley	....	stand-by art director
Sarah Forbes	....	art department assistant
Barry Gibbs	....	property master
Gavin Gordon	....	stand-by carpenter: gimbal unit
Jason Hopperton	....	props
Martin Kingsley	....	chargehand props
Dougie Lankston	....	dressing prop daily
Charles Leatherland	....	draughtsman
Eduardo Lima	....	graphic artist
Tony Marks	....	carpenter
Miraphora Mina	....	graphic artist (as Miraphora Caruso)
Mitch Niclas	....	chargehand stand-by props
Darryl Paterson	....	props storeman
Wesley Peppiatt	....	props
Carl Peters	....	dressing props
Sally Ross	....	art department coordinator
Toby Shears	....	supervising propmaker
Tom Still	....	set designer
Daniel Swingler	....	art department attachment
Jason Torbett	....	dressing propman
Emma Vane	....	draughtsman
Peter Watson	....	props
Carl Wilson	....	modeller

Sound Department
Julie Altus	....	adr recordist
Jeremy Balko	....	adr mixer
Courtney Bishop	....	adr recordist
Ed Colyer	....	sound mixer
David Evans	....	supervising sound editor
Iain Eyre	....	dialogue editor
Simon Firsht	....	boom operator
Glen Gathard	....	sound
Stefan Henrix	....	supervising sound editor
Andy Kennedy	....	sound designer
Rob Killick	....	sound mix technician
Jed Loughran	....	sound effects editor
Michael Miller	....	adr mixer
Jon Olive	....	sound effects editor
Mike Prestwood Smith	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jamie Roden	....	adr mixer
Brian Simmons	....	sound mixer: second unit
Jack Stew	....	foley artist
Dean St. John	....	adr mixer
Ian Tapp	....	adr recordist
Mark Taylor	....	sound editor
Mark Taylor	....	sound re-recording mixer
David Tyler	....	sound
Dylan Voigt	....	cable person
Ian Voigt	....	production sound mixer
Andrew Caller	....	sound mix technician (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Terence J. Cox	....	special effects set foreman
Yves De Bono	....	special effects supervisor
Yves DeBono	....	special effects director
Peter Fern	....	senior technician
Eric Hayden	....	model painter
Chris Motjuoadi	....	special effects
Roger Nichols	....	senior technician
Nigel Nixon	....	special effects buyer
Stefano Pepin	....	special effects technician
Stefan Rambousek	....	model maker: Cinema Production Services
Scott Schutzki	....	model maker: additional miniatures
Ian Wingrove	....	supervisor gimble: process unit

Visual Effects by
Douglas Aiken	....	digital compositor
Diccon Alexander	....	digital matte painter: Double Negative
Forrest Arnold	....	digital effects artist
Ronald Arredondo	....	visual effects gaffer: Cinema Production Services Inc.
Stewart Ash	....	animator
Oliver Atherton	....	digital compositor
Suzette Barnett	....	digital artist
Judy Barr	....	digital compositor
Hitesh Bharadia	....	color & lighting technical director: Double Negative
Philip Bland	....	digital cleanup artist
Cris Borgnine	....	key grip visual effects
Vanessa Boyce	....	visual effects artist: Double Negative
Dameon Boyle	....	visual effects artist
Richard Briscoe	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Andre Brizard	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Jason Burnett	....	film recording assistant: Framestore CFC
Andy Burrow	....	film recording manager: Framestore CFC
Billy A. Campbell	....	visual effects editor
Peter Chiang	....	visual effects supervisor
Jeff Clifford	....	research and development: Double Negative
Emily Cobb	....	3-d artist: double negative
Bertrand Cordier	....	look development technical director: Double Negative
Michael Cowler	....	engineer: Framestore CFC
Tyson Cross	....	digital artist
Dimitri Delacovias	....	digital matte painter
Paul Doogan	....	film recording assistant: Framestore CFC
Kerry Downing	....	editorial: Framestore CFC
Jon Doyle	....	digital compositor
Giovanni Dulay	....	model maker: Cinema Production Services
Will Elsdale	....	digital artist: Double Negative
James D. Etherington	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Daniel Evans	....	shader writer: Double Negative
Brian Eyre	....	CGI animator
Stuart Farley	....	technical director
Antonella Ferrari	....	visual effects editorial
Mark Franco	....	visual effects producer
James Furlong	....	visual effects artist: Double Negative
Sari Gennis	....	digital compositor
Ben Gillingham-Sutton	....	paint artist: Framestore CFC
Joe Godfrey	....	film recording assistant: Framestore CFC
Kim Gordon	....	digital compositor
Carey Gosa	....	visual effects production manager: Electric Effects
Joel Green	....	matchmove artist
Tom Griffiths	....	matchmove artist: Double Negative
Pawel Grochola	....	digital effects artist
Ummi Gudjonsson	....	digital artist
Charlie Habanananda	....	data operator: Framestore CFC
Alistair Hamer	....	film mastering engineer: Framestore CFC
Pete Hanson	....	studio manager: Double Negative
Jeremy Hattingh	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Adam Hawkes	....	digital paint artist
Jan Hogevold	....	executive producer: Framestore CFC
Simon Hughes	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Michael Hull	....	animator: Double Negative
Bob Hurrie	....	miniature effects producer: Cinema Production Services, Inc.
Claire Inglis	....	digital compositor
Oliver James	....	research and development supervisor: Double Negative
Jody Johnson	....	2D visual effects supervisor
John Joyce	....	miniature effects coordinator: Cinema Production Services, Inc.
Michael Joyce	....	miniature effects supervisor: Cinema Production Services, Inc.
John Kilshaw	....	digital effects artist
Jordan Kirk	....	technical director: Double Negative
Alec Knox	....	senior lighting technical director: Double Negative
Brian Krijgsman	....	assistant colourist: Framestore CFC
Joosten Kuypers	....	3D artist: Double Negative
Cyn Langley	....	engineer: Framestore CFC
Pedro Lara	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Emma Larsson	....	visual effects production assistant
Tracey Leadbetter	....	visual effects: Double Negative
Rick Leary	....	CG supervisor
James Lewis	....	animator
Mattias Lindahl	....	CG supervisor
John Lockwood	....	visual effects supervisor: Machine
Sarah Lockwood	....	digital compositor
Kevin Lowery	....	film mastering assistant: Framestore CFC
Brian Lutge	....	lead 3D animator: EFX
Aysha Madina	....	animator
Helena Masand	....	digital artist
Helena Masand	....	matchmover
Ian Masters	....	visual effects
Mamie McCall	....	compositor: electric effects
Fay McConkey	....	visual effects producer: Double Negative
Claire McGrane	....	senior producer: Framestore CFC
Ivan Mena	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Sarah Micallef	....	digital intermediate producer: Framestore CFC
Maria Michalopoulou	....	data operator: Framestore CFC
Laura Miles	....	visual effects coordinator
Luke Millar	....	lighting
Luke Millar	....	look development technical director
Carlos Morales	....	digital compositor
Tristan Myles	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Charlie Noble	....	visual effects supervisor: double negative
Paul Norris	....	digital compositor
Alban Orlhiac	....	lead texture artist: Double Negative
Gruff Owen	....	digital compositor
Aleksandar Pejic	....	visual effects: Double Negative
Dan Perry	....	film recording assistant: Framestore CFC
Fred Place	....	senior digital compositor
Carlos Poon	....	matchmove artist: Double Negative
Rupert Porter	....	visual effects producer: Double Negative
David Rand	....	3D supervisor: EFX
Laurent-Paul Robert	....	technical director
Katherine Roberts	....	visual effects: Double Negative
Tom Rolfe	....	digital compositor
Gia Sadhwani	....	effects animator
Foad Shah	....	digital compositor
Matthew Shaw	....	digital compositor
Asa Shoul	....	colourist: Framestore CFC
William Skellorn	....	visual effects editorial: Double Negative
Tom Steadman	....	render wrangler: Double Negative
Jim Steel	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Jelena Stojanovic	....	digital compositor
Steve Street	....	visual effects supervisor: Machine
Christopher Sweet	....	studio assistant: Double Negative
Toby Taplin	....	visual effects artist
Scott Taylor	....	compositor: Double Negative
Clare Tinsley	....	visual effects coordinator: Double Negative
Eugénie von Tunzelmann	....	digital artist: Double Negative
Victor Wade	....	digital compositor
Steve Wagendorp	....	assistant colourist: Framestore CFC
Ellen Walder	....	visual effects producer: Double Negative
Thomas Ward	....	animator: Double Negative
Sharon Warmington	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Imery Watson	....	digital environment technical director: Double Negative
Richenda Wheeler	....	previs
Andrew Whitehurst	....	3D artist: Double Negative
Clare Williams	....	matchmove artist: Double Negative
Brian Wolf	....	compositing supervisor
Alex Wuttke	....	CG supervisor
Jason Yanofsky	....	visual effects artist
George Zwier	....	digital compositor
Scott Chambers	....	visual effects editorial: Double Negative Ltd (uncredited)
Andrew Francis	....	HDD5 VT operations (uncredited)
Steve Lynn	....	technical support (uncredited)
Jen Underdahl	....	model maker (uncredited)

Stunts
Andy Bradshaw	....	stunt performer
Nick Chopping	....	stunt performer
Steve Dent	....	stunt coordinator
Bradley Farmer	....	stunt performer
James Fiddy	....	stunts
Paul Herbert	....	stunt performer
Rowley Irlam	....	stunts
Adam Kirley	....	stunt performer
Matthew Sampson	....	horse and stunt dept coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Jonathan Ames	....	video assistant
Kenneth Atherfold	....	key grip: gimbal unit
Gary L. Camp	....	Steadicam operator
Gary L. Camp	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Chris Clarke	....	second assistant camera dailies: gimbal unit
David Cross	....	grip: gimbal unit
Gary Cross	....	best boy
Chris Dale	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera
Richard Davies	....	key grip: lion unit
John Ferguson	....	first assistant camera: gimbal unit
Kate Filby	....	second assistant camera: lion unit
Simon Fogg	....	grip
Jim Folley	....	grip: gimbal unit
Ian Foster	....	camera operator
John Foster	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Alan Hall	....	second assistant camera: "a" camera
Graham Hall	....	camera operator: gimbal unit
John Handler	....	underwater cinematographer
Todd Helsley	....	best boy
Alice Hobden	....	second assistant camera: gimbal unit
Gary Hymns	....	key grip
Paul Hymns	....	grip
Jim Jolliffe	....	first assistant camera: lion unit
Dylan Jones	....	video assistant
Dylan Jones	....	video operator: second unit
Brad Larner	....	first assistant camera: gimbal unit
Jay Maidment	....	still photographer
Joe McGee	....	practical electrician
Tim Morris	....	video assistant
Frédéric North	....	helicopter pilot: camera helicopter
Lee Parfitt	....	electrician
Ben Perry	....	second assistant camera: gimbal unit
Larry Randall	....	gaffer
Simon Richards	....	director of photography: lion unit
Tony Rowland	....	crane grip: gimbal unit
Peter Taylor	....	director of photography: gimbal unit
Andy Thomson	....	flight head technician
Martin Ward	....	video playback operator
Dave Wells	....	grip trainee
Jack White	....	gaffer: gimbal unit
Shawn White	....	best boy floor
Steven Desbrow	....	aerial camera technician (uncredited)

Casting Department
Kelly Valentine Hendry	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Philip Goldsworthy	....	costume assistant
Tom Hornsby	....	wardrobe assistant
Neil Murphy	....	wardrobe assistant
Wyn Vaughan-Humphreys	....	costume assistant
Emma Walker	....	costume breakdown artist

Editorial Department
Kenny Becker	....	color timer
Aisha Bicknell	....	post-production coordinator
Tania Clarke	....	first assistant editor
Matthew Hart	....	assistant editor
Kevin Holt	....	assistant editor
Debs Richardson	....	assistant editor: avid
Paul Swinburne	....	first assistant editor
Jon Thompson	....	post-production consultant

Music Department
Peter Afterman	....	music supervisor
Matt Biffa	....	music supervisor
Tom Calderaro	....	orchestrator
Dominic Gibbs	....	music editor
Isobel Griffiths	....	orchestra contractor
Don Harper	....	conductor
Jake Jackson	....	score recording engineer
Steve Kempster	....	score mixer
Paul Linford	....	score producer
Alison Litton	....	music coordinator
Dave Metzger	....	orchestrator
Michael Price	....	music editor
Jeanette Surga	....	supervising music editor
Margaret Yen	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Mickey Davie	....	vehicle technician
Phil Evans	....	driver: cast
Tony Power	....	driver: construction department
Karen Russell	....	driver: minibus

Other crew
Julie Adams	....	dialect consultant: Mr. Henderson
Caridad Angus	....	stand-in
Philip Ball	....	stand-in
Linzi Baltrunas	....	assistant location manager
Zofia Borucka	....	dialect coach: Jean Reno
Erik Bright	....	publicist
Bryan Brown	....	pilot
Eddie Canal	....	floor runner: Gimbal unit
Leah Chalk	....	health and safety
Hannah Collett	....	assistant to producer
William Conacher	....	dialect coach
Tim Davies	....	location assistant
John Day	....	pilot
Clifford De Spenser	....	language coach
Farnaz Donovan	....	assistant accountant
Jake Edmonds	....	health and safety advisor
Peter Edwards	....	fire safety
Jason Eskin	....	intern
Ceri Evans	....	script supervisor: gimbal unit
Elton Farla	....	construction medic
Mike Fenton	....	aerial engineer
Bob Gauld Galliers	....	pilot
Nev Gardener	....	aerial engineer
Josh Geller	....	assistant: Dean Devlin
Josh Geller	....	coordinator: Electric Entertainment
Alex Gladstone	....	location manager
Peter Graf	....	aerial Super-G technician
Doug Gregory	....	pilot
John David Gunkle	....	location assistant
Lucy Hadden	....	script supervisor trainee
Ray Hanna	....	aerial coordinator
Sarah Hanna	....	aerial team coordinator
Darren Helman	....	location assistant (as darren hellman)
Christopher Hutchins	....	assistant to director
Stuart Johnson	....	fire safety
Sally Jones	....	script supervisor
Alister Kay	....	safety pilot
Ken Kellet	....	pilot
Andrew King	....	pilot
Jennifer Lambert	....	construction nurse
Nigel Lamb	....	chief pilot
Robs Lamplough	....	pilot
Jack Livesey	....	historical advisor
Robb Metcalfe	....	pilot
Robb Millingship	....	pilot
Paul Mindel	....	floor runner
Damian Mitchell	....	assistant armorer
Juliet Morris	....	daily floor runner
Steve Mortimore	....	location scout
Simon Neville	....	set armorer
Laurence Newman	....	fire safety
Chris Norman	....	assistant accountant
Mike Patlin	....	aerial coordinator
Peggy Pere	....	helicopter coordinator
Philip Pickford	....	aerial safety
Luc Poullain	....	helicopter pilot
Dave Proctor	....	aerial unit runner
Lisa Radin	....	floor runner
Rebecca Rae	....	assistant coordinator
Peter Rawlinson	....	assistant: Marc Frydman
Sandra Reis	....	digital paint and rotoscope artist: Double Negative
James Richardson	....	first assistant accountant
Taff Smith	....	pilot
Bertie Spiegelberg	....	production runner
Roy Squires	....	fire safety
Karen Svobodny	....	assistant to director
Michele Tandy	....	financial controller
Isobel Thomas	....	production coordinator
Catherine Tyler	....	set runner
Tim Van Rellim	....	production executive
Anna Walker	....	pilot
Susan Warwicker	....	special effects production coordinator
Charlotte Wright	....	location scout
Joseph Henry Anderson	....	location assistant (uncredited)
Craig john Robinson	....	location assistant (uncredited)
Craig john Robinson	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Electric Entertainment
• Flyboys Films
• Ingenious Film Partners
• Skydance Productions

Distributors

• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2007) (UK) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox of Germany (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Bazuca Films (2007) (Chile) (theatrical)
• Brunbro Entertainment Group (2007) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Cathay-Keris Films (2006) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Cinestar (2006) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• Distribution Company (2007) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• E Stars Films (2007) (China) (all media)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Prorom Media-Trade (2006) (Romania) (all media)
• RTL Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing) (RTL7)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Germany (2007) (Germany) (DVD)
• Verve Pictures (2007) (UK) (theatrical)

Special Effects

• Double Negative (visual effects)
• Electric Visual Effects (EFX) (additional visual effects) (as EFX)
• Centroid Motion Capture
• Machine (additional visual effects)

Other Companies

• 1st Defence Fire & Rescue Service  fire cover
• 2020 Casting  extras casting
• Aerial Camera Systems  helicopter gyrostabilized camera system
• Air Lyndhurst Studios  music recorded at
• Bank of Ireland  production financing provided by
• Bapty and Co.  weapons
• Casting Collective  extras casting
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  cranes, dollies and remote camera systems
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  stabilized remote camera systems
• Contrails Group  publicity: promotional touring
• De Lane Lea  sound post-production
• Framestore CFC  digital intermediate
• Gearbox Sound and Vision  additional ProTools systems supplied by
• Insignia Public Relations  unit publicity
• Joe Dunton & Company  video assist equipment
• Lee Lighting  lighting
• London Session Orchestra, The  orchestra (uncredited)
• Media Safety  health & safety
• On Tour Productions  transportation services
• Packair Airfreight  international logistics
• Panavision UK  camera equipment provided by
• Pinewood Studios  sound post-production
• Production Copier Company  production equipment and services
• Sapex Scripts  post-production services
• Signet Sound Studio  music mixed at
• Sonic Magic  adr recording
• Sound Design Company, The  pro tools hire
• Varèse Sarabande  soundtrack

Also Known As:

Fly Boys (International: English title) (alternative spelling)
Õhuässad (Estonia) [et]
Caballeros del aire (Argentina) [es]
Flyboys (Greece) [el]
Flyboys - Bohaterska eskadra (Poland) [pl]
Flyboys - Helden der Lüfte (Germany) [de]
Giovani aquile (Italy) [it]
Heroji neba (Croatia) (DVD title) [hr]
Kahraman pilotlar (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
L'escadrille lafayette (Canada: French title) [fr]
Peligro en el aire (Peru) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for war action violence and some sexual content.

Runtime:

140 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #42281) | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Singapore:PG | Malaysia:U | UK:12A | Portugal:M/12 | Ireland:12A | New Zealand:M | Germany:12 | Finland:K-13 | Argentina:Atp | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | Peru:14

Filming Locations:

RAF Halton, Halton, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Electric Entertainment

Trivia:

In the scene where the pilots are painting or having painted personalizations on the sides of their airplanes, Lyle Porter is painting a banner that reads "Timothy CH. IV V. 7". This is reference to a chapter and verse in the Book of Timothy in the Bible. There are TWO books of Timothy in the Bible, both having a chapter IV and verse 7. However, more than likely, this would be a reference to the SECOND book of Timothy, chapter IV, verse 7, which reads, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:", which might be something a very religious combat pilot might reference on the side of his combat airplane. That same-numbered chapter and verse in the FIRST book does not read anything like having to do with fighting or combat.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Blaine rescues Lucienne from her farmhouse invaded by German soldiers he takes off across a field. For some reason, two very unintelligent German soldiers run into the flight line of the plane and start shooting at the plane head on. They would have been much better off trying to shoot the plane from the side and would not have been in the firing line of the main machine gun on the plane.

Quotes:

Eugene Skinner: This country
[referring to France]
Eugene Skinner: has been good to me. Better than my own. I owe them something.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Diary of a Miniature Stunt Pilot (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty

A fun adventure that plays loose with history

When I first saw the previews and read the synopsis, I was expecting a horrible film like Pearl Harbor. Fighter pilots in love with a girl. Happily the love story is not sappy or sickening and actually helps create character development. And how the love story ends is a very nice non-Hollywood ending.

The Planes look magnificent, but could have been done better. The use of German Dr1's (the Fokker Triplanes) as the only German fighter is understandable as distinguishing friend from foe. However, making all of the Dr1's (except for the main villains ) solid red is extremely annoying. While it is up to some discussion if the Red Baron's Dr1 was all red or mostly red, it does not mean that all Dr1's were red, especially all red. The Dr1's came from the Fokker factory usually in an olive drab paint scheme with a light blue underside. The film makers could have added a red scheme to the planes but left a portion olive drab and blue underside, it still would have made the Germans distinctive without being clones of Manfred von Rictoffen.

The dogfights are fun to watch and are fairly exciting, however the planes fly highly unrealistically at times. Overall the CGI is excellent but at times it is noticeable as CGI. The planes that explode (Explosions are such a Hollywood staple :) ) are unrealistic. The planes are traveling 70 t0 100 miles per hour in reality, but the explosions react as if the plane is standing still, going up in a ball instead of being spread along the doomed plane's path.

Over all it was fun to watch and covers a historical period that has long been neglected in film.