Flying Tigers
by David Miller
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Actor: Anna Lee, Gordon Jones, John Carroll, John Wayne, Paul KellyDirector: David Miller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Flying Tigers
Movie Review: loved those Japanese planes!
Summary: 4 Stars
If I were rating this flick for historical accuracy, I'd give it just one star. (For the real story, turn to the book: Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942.) As an hour and a half of entertainment, however, it's probably worth three stars. This was John Wayne's first combat role, in 1942, and filming actually began while the American Volunteer Group was still in combat.
Where the movie really shines, though, is in the depiction of the Japanese fighters battled by Duke and his buddies: they're old-fashioned, fixed-landing-gear Nakajima Ki-27s, in footage clipped from Japanese feature films about the air wars in China and on the Soviet border. Those are indeed the planes that the AVG met in combat. So when you hear the Duke drawl, "Nack-ah-JEEM-ah," you can rest assured that you're hearing the real thing. They really were Nakajimas. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
Summary of Flying Tigers
John Wayne plays the tough commander of Flying Tigers, the famous fighter squadron that fought to save China from the Japanese. Wayne finds he is fighting a war on two fronts: he's taking on the enemy with only a handful of inexperienced men and patched-up planes while keeping a cocky new pilot from stealing his girl. The story has little in common with real history, and lots of classic post-Pearl Harbor propaganda fills the script. Regardless, the movie is all Wayne's, and Wayne fans will enjoy seeing the prototype for what would become the Duke's trademark portrayal of the military fighting man.Although the pressure of making life-and-death decisions in wartime may be more maturely explored in Twelve O'Clock High, Flying Tigers still has enough characterization and action to keep the viewer's attention (not to mention special effects by the pioneering Howard Lydecker). --Mark Savary
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