Flying Tigers
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Movie Reviews of Flying Tigers
Movie Review: Not One of Wayne's Best
Summary: 2 Stars
I love the History Channel, have infinite respect for the AVG, love John Wayne films, and lived two years in the part of China where Flying Tigers is set. So, you'd think I might adore this film? I had hoped so, but unfortunately Republic pictures made this opus on the cheap.
John Wayne plays a fictional commander of the American Volunteer Group, somewhere between Claire Chennault and Pappy Boygnton. He does his best to carry the film, and does OK, but he can't carry it alone. Bad effects, cheap stock footage, flimsy sets, and bad script all plague TIGERS.
Republic made little effort to hide the California filming location and even used the WRONG PLANES! There is little mention of the OSS-AVG connection, and the film was made too early on to be a good history of the AVG, even if it were accurate.
The heroes of the AVG deserve better than TIGERS; this film isn't a tribute to them, it's a sloppy, propaganda film that does them little service.
Movie Review: Youthful war-monger becomes pacifist
Summary: 1 Stars
I am not a John Wayne fan, and believe other reviewers who have pointed out the inaccuracies in 'Flying Tigers', but I'd like to have the DVD just to take me back to a time (1942) when, at the age of six, I was left with a friend in the United Artists theater on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, to watch my very first movies - this one, and 'Bambi'. I entered that movie house a dedicated, blood-thirsty fan of blowing enemy folks to bits, and left horrified by having repeatedly watched pilots get their faces shot off behind broken canopy glass. I had not realized there was so much bleeding in war, and that death might actually happen. Upon returning home, I told my mother, who would die, of TB, the following year, that I had become a pacifist. 'Uh huh'. she replied, knowing well my sanguinary inclinations. Of course, she was right - before very long, I was happily imagining myself flying a B-17 and creating firestorms all over Europe. This is a VERY good movie for young children to see.