Bloated Howard Hughes Biopic Alt Film Overview.

Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and director of the film Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became an effective film manufacturer and an air travel mogul while simultaneously expanding much more unstable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The brief but much heralded flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures constructed by New Bargain Studios are on display at the Evergreen Aviation Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, aviator nation sweatshirt kids with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse at risking his life in other ways, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to stay up, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself airborne just a couple of mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros