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Release Date: 1958 Cast: William Wellman Jr., Tab Hunter, Robert Hover, Henry Nakamura, Marcel Dalio, Brett Halsey, Clint Eastwood, Maurice Marsac, Raymond Bailey, Tom Laughlin, James Garner, Will Hutchins ...MORE
Cast: William Wellman Jr., Tab Hunter, Robert Hover, Henry Nakamura, Marcel Dalio, Brett Halsey, Clint Eastwood, Maurice Marsac, Raymond Bailey, Tom Laughlin, James Garner, Will Hutchins, Paul Fix, Etchika Choureau, David Janssen, William A. Wellman ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Black-and-white, War film Lafayette Escadrille , also known as C'est la Guerre, Hell Bent for Glory (UK) and With You in My Arms is an American war film produced by Warner Brothers Pictures. The film starred Tab Hunter, David Janssen, Will Hutchins and Etchika Choureau and featured Clint Eastwood in an early supporting role. It was the final film in the career of director William A. Wellman and is based on his original story.
The plot of "Lafayette Escadrille" is not dissimilar to the 2006 film Flyboys, which also tells the story of the Escadrille as background to an unrequited love story, while dealing with some... MORE
Lafayette Escadrille , also known as C'est la Guerre, Hell Bent for Glory (UK) and With You in My Arms is an American war film produced by Warner Brothers Pictures. The film starred Tab Hunter, David Janssen, Will Hutchins and Etchika Choureau and featured Clint Eastwood in an early supporting role. It was the final film in the career of director William A. Wellman and is based on his original story.
The plot of "Lafayette Escadrille" is not dissimilar to the 2006 film Flyboys, which also tells the story of the Escadrille as background to an unrequited love story, while dealing with some of the lesser-known elements of the squadron's history.
Thad Walker (Tab Hunter), a spoiled, rich kid from Boston, who had gotten in serious trouble with the law, fled to France to join the French Foreign Legion in World War I. In Paris, with companions, "Duke" Sinclair (David Janssen), Dave Putnam (Will Hutchins), Tom Hitchcock (Jody McCrea) and Bill Wellman (William Wellman Jr.), the boys stop at a bar and learn of the recent formation of the Lafayette Escadrille made up of American volunteer pilots who fly for France. The group of expatriates joins up and learns to fly on training aircraft LESS
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