Flight Command (1940)

Directors

Frank Borzage

Cast

Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly

The story

Hotshot ensign Alan Drake, fresh from flight school at Pensacola, Florida, gets off to a bad start with the pilots of an elite Fighting 8 squadron (VF-8), nicknamed the "Hellcats", to which he has been posted in San Diego. Making a nearly disastrous landing attempt in heavy fog against orders and disqualifying the squadron during a competitive shooting exercise by colliding with the target drogue does not endear him to his fellow pilots. He also asks out a woman he has met, Lorna, not knowing that she is the squadron commander Billy Gary's wife.

Genres

Film metadata comes from the open sources listed in Credits & Contact. Catalogue details may be incomplete.

Your lists

Loading your lists…