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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and supervisor of the film Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective movie manufacturer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing extra unstable because of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The much yet brief advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures constructed by New Bargain Studios are on display at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in jeopardy his life in various other means, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of 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 remain up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself in the air only a few minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator mastercard phone number images: Miramax Warner Bros