Home Page
Contact Us
Search Page
Links Page
Top DVDs
Action
Adam Sandler
Anne Bancroft
Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Cary Grant
Christian
Classics
Comedy
Cult Movies
Disney Animated
Documentary
Drama
Fitness, Yoga
Horror
Jackie Chan
Jim Carrey
John Wayne
Kids, Family
Mel Gibson
Music Video
Mystery
New Age
Sandra Bullock
Science Fiction
Sports
Steve McQueen
Sylvester Stallone
Television
Tom Cruise
Twilight Zone
Westerns
Top Videos
Action
Christian
Classics
Comedy
Cult Movies
Documentary
Drama
Fitness, Yoga
Horror
Kids, Family
Music Video
Mystery
Peter Cushing
Science Fiction
Sports
Television
Westerns
|
|
Buy Used/3rdParty
More product information
Find VHS version
Find Movie Posters
|
The Wings of Eagles
List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $11.99
DVD - 22 May, 2007
Warner Home Video
NR (Not Rated)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Director: John Ford
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Closed-captioned
- Color
- DVD-Video
- Subtitled
- Widescreen
- NTSC
Related Areas: Action, Adventure, Affectionate, Biography, Biography [feature], Color, Drama, English, Feature, Feature Film Action Adventure, Living With Disability, Military Life, Movie, Stirring, Suitable for Children, Tense, USA, War in the Sky |
|
|
| DVD Description 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 |
| Customer Reviews
The best of John Wayne One 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.
The Wings of Eagles This 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.
I never received my order. What else can I say - I've never gotten the DVD I ordered, The Wings of Eagles.
Joyce |
|
Amazon.Com prices and availability subject to change.
|
|
|
