Réalisation:
Lothar MendesMusique:
Roy WebbActeurs·trices:
Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Kingsford, Hugh Beaumont, Damian O'Flynn, Theodore von Eltz (plus)Résumés(1)
Never one to stay typecast, Rosalind Russell followed three years of prime comedy roles (The Women, His Girl Friday, My sister Eileen and more) into the wild blue yonder of Flight for Freedom, an ambitious drama reverberating with world war II-era heroism and inspired by a real-life legend. Playing "flyer's flyer" Tonie Carter, a competitive aviatrix loosely modeled after Amelia Earhart, she indomitably pushes the aerial envelope, winging from cross-country pilot and champion racer to distance record-breaker with the ambitious goal of around-the-world solo flight. Fred MacMurray (Russell's Take a Letter, Darling costar) and Herbert Marshall play the men whose devotion to Tonie is overshadowed by her love of the skies. That love will lead to perilous espionage and a then-timely scenario to explain one of history's most mysterious vanishings. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (1)
The film is essentially a classic tragic romance, somewhat in the style of Casablanca, but certainly not with the same emotional intensity. However, what gives the film a little extra is the fact that it's intertwined with flying and also with the role of women. The actors portrayed their roles so well that they at least deserve that slight above-average rating.
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