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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0012569798632 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: WARD79863D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 22, 2007 Running Time: 110 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 22, 1957 Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/22/2007 Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Nr Amazon.com: John Ford had a big emotional investment in The Wings of Eagles, and his favorite star John Wayne rewarded the director with one of his strongest performances. The subject is Frank "Spig" Wead, Naval aviation legend turned Hollywood screenwriter, who had written Ford's very good 1932 movie Air Mail and his magnificent WWII elegy They Were Expendable (1945). On the latter, Ford made the extraordinary gesture of putting Wead's screenplay credit on the same main-title panel as his own. Ford was fond of exploring the theme of "victory in defeat." Wead's life was made to order for that. The hell-raising flyboy shenanigans, and his flailing marriage to a scrappy Irish redhead (The Quiet Man's Maureen O'Hara reporting for duty), were abruptly curtailed by a fall that left him with severe spinal damage. He should never have been able to walk again, but he fought his way back to limited mobility and built a new career as a writer. And when WWII broke out, Wead talked his way into uniform once more and made a key contribution to the Pacific air war. It would be satisfying to report that The Wings of Eagles is a triumph--that the broad comedy of the early reels cuts brilliantly against the raw pain of the Weads' marriage, the grief of a family broken and mended and broken again, the film's specters of death and deep frustration. There are powerful moments--especially the complex, scalding scene of the newly injured Spig dismissing Min (O'Hara) from his life. But the low comedy is very low, the visual style sometimes stark but more often just drab, and the screenplay is very choppy about the passage of time. Ford-Wayne pal Ward Bond turns up as a crusty movie director with a walking stick full of booze, an office full of Western memorabilia, and the nudge-nudge moniker "John Dodge." --Richard T. Jameson Average Rating:
 Rating: - Its Army vs NavyWings of Eagles is the lighthearted story of naval Commander Frank W. (Spig) Weed, a pioneer in naval aviation at the end of WWI. While not a biography in the strictest sense the movie highlights his life adventures, beginning as he serves as one of the first naval flight cadets and ending with his final retirement during WWII. John Wayne stars in the role of Spig, Maureen O'Hara as his wife and Dan Dailey as the supportive Navy CPO "Jughead" Carson. While somewhat comical at times, ... Read More Rating:  - The Wings of EaglesA awesome war film envolving John Wayne and Ms. O' Hara! A must have for fans of the duke! Rating: - The best of John WayneOne of my favorite JW movies. I saw it when it was a new production... way back when... and it is still a great insight into an American hero, Spig Wead. Rating: - The Wings of EaglesThis is a great war movie and I enjoyed it very much also a great acting job by John Wayne, Dan Dailey and Maureen O'Hara and a great supporting cast. They were even funny sometimes. Rating:  - I never received my order.What else can I say - I've never gotten the DVD I ordered, The Wings of Eagles. Joyce |
