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- The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #TheSpiritofStLouis
This Billy Wilder-directed biography tells the thrilling story of aviator Charles Lindbergh (James Stewart), who risks his life to complete the first solo flight across the Atlantic. In order to survive the journey, Lindbergh must struggle to overcome his own fatigue and the elements--ranging from ice on the wings to fog. Along the way, Lindbergh recalls his past as an airmail pilot and a barnstormer.
Directed By Billy Wilder
Starring James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith
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This reminds me of one of my nicest travel memories, if not the nicest. For our honeymoon, in 1987, we took a flight from Brussels to Atlanta, our very first trans-Atlantic flight ever. As the crew knew this was our honeymoon, the captain invited us to the cockpit to witness landfall approaching Newfoundland and Nova Scotia near sunset. It was one of the most beautiful sights, we were so much in awe, and so grateful for this gesture of the crew. And this scene kind of reminds me of those emotions.
My friend and I worked at an airport together and for decades after this movie we would yell to each other "Which way is Ireland!".
My brother sent me this video and screen captured this comment.....I thought I was the only one just randomly asking which way was Ireland.
@@fabiandiaz1264 Haha thats great man!!
"Hello, you beautiful town! Hello, you beautiful old house! Hello, you old Building and Loan."
"Merry Christmas to you too, in jail. Go home, they're waiting for you "
Mary! Don't you know me?
The way he screams out the window always cracks me up
What a glorious moment in history! And the role played by a very experienced pilot and a fine gentleman!
I remember in 1957, This was the first movie ever i saw at a cinema. I was 7 yrs. them, My daddy took me to cinema and we watched it together. I fell in love. Later we built a model of the Spirit that we hanged from the ceiling. And some years later when he published his book I got it as a gift.
Dont know how many times i read it..
So that gave me my love for airplanes.
It felt a little magic that his roots was Swedish as well.
We're probably twins, you described exactly what I did in the same years: seeing the movie, assembling the model, reading the book..., he's been my Hero since then.
But there's an unanswered question: how did he manage his "phisiological needs"?
😮
Such a wonderful movie! It tells the whole story so well. 👍👍👏👏
Only Jimmy Stewart could get away with a screech like that. Howard Dean is envious.
I heard that Lindbergh wrote later about this saying, “I felt as though I were the dead come back to life.” Paraphrasing here, but that’s pretty much what he felt as soon as he knew he was over Dingle Bay
i find the "HEEEEEEEY!!!!!!" part funny
But the "funny" sound of his voice is a way of showing overwhelming emotion, the sudden high change of emotions from terrifying, mortal dread of death or worse at any second from a hundred things to irrefutable proof he would live, succeed as intended, as he so fervently worked and hoped, bet his life and career upon, . . . was, after all, irrefutably true!
His cry HAD TO sound a little 'off' because his throat was dry AND that's what all humans do under similar circumstances of 28 hours of non-stop, solo, transoceanic day and night intercontintinental navigation AND flying in a one-in-a-milion- lifetimes opportunity REALIZED, personally achievement of mere dreams before happening, at long last, after all, . . .
Funny/unusual, not funny humorous or goofy, n'est pas? He had to get it all out in those few primal screams crossing the Irish coast because he still had 6 hours of flightime to land in Paris with just as dangerous unknowns coming at 110 mph. right at him/them, so to speak, now.
1:39 jimmy’s scream is priceless
It still blows me away how Lindbergh was able to fly this aircraft without a front windshield. Man had balls of steel!
Traveller no rear windshield either 🤔
Yep, what a terrible design though. It seems crazy to have had to look about the sides.
It might sound dumb, but in a taildragger plane like that the front windshield is only marginally useful.
@@daytonasixty-eight1354 True enough, but it's only "marginally useful" when the tail wheel is on the ground. Once the tail lifts up and the aircraft is level, you can see where you're going.
@@99somerville He had a small periscope too, but it was still tough to see - VERY tough.
The incredible torture Lindbergh describes fighting off sleep during the monotonous flight staring at the gauges and forcing his eyes open that would quickly close. Constant struggle he knew death was certain if he failed to stay awake.
That's a load of nonsense. It's a well known fact that although cocaine was outlawed in approximately 7 years previously; he was given a container full of cocaine to keep little bumps during his journey. You're talking medical grade pharmaceutical cocaine - nothing like it is now made of diesel/kerosene. Actual 99% pure medical grade. He was high as a kite on drugs. Not tired whatsoever.
the most impressive thing to me is getting a motor to stay together that long way back then! absolutely incredible. no computerized boring/honing machines, precision piston and crank manufacturing like they had by the 1970's. all done and finished by hand.
The Wright engines were modernised machine made engines with no exposed push rods or rocker gear. They were made like watches and a few years after that J-5 engine they introduced fully interchangable parts. The already well known reliability of the Wright J-5 Whirlwind was the reason Lindberg and Ryan selected it.
Actor James Stewart served for 27 years as an officer pilot, officially retiring from the Air Force on May 31, 1968 with the rank of Brigadier-General !!!
He is the the highest ranked hollywood actor in history.
indeed good day general Stewart sir.
@@daytonasixty-eight1354 Didn’t know that!!!
I believe he flew B17s during WW2 and later jet powered airplanes. What a life he lived!
He flew B-52's in "Straticic Air Command". He actually flew them in real life. Yep, he was a command pilot.@@anthonykobiec8569
THE SPIRIT!!!!! What a beauty!!!! Thanks for the post!!!.
Thank you Warner Archive for this delightful clip.
I know Right!!!!
One of the high points in this magnificent motion picture.
Nobody's ever been happier to see the Irish than a pub-keeper on payday.
This film was made the year that I was born. I think about that and the fact that jet aircraft had already flown in two wars (WWII, Korea) and the F4 Phantom had been in design and development for 4 years by 1957. Since then, of course we have made incredible strides in the field; faster, higher, invisibility to radar, greater payloads, greater commercial comfort and range. Aviation has an incredible legacy of innovation and rapid development unlike any other American industry in my lifetime.
He was an ingredible pilot and man fearless ❤
In the summer of 1973 I was 19 years old and very lucky to get a summer job at the massive McDonnell Aircraft plant at the St Louis (Missouri) plant. Over the course of my brief employment there I found this airplane, the replica of The Spirit of St Louis used in this movie sitting in one of the hangars there. It looked very odd to see this replica sitting amidst all of these advanced military fighter planes.
No one "heeeeeeeeeeey's like Jimmie....😁
This movie was on TCM today. Great flick.
Get the same felling somehow when my 70 year old Chevrolet pickup tops a long grade.
I’ll pat her door and say ya done good old girl.
She doesn’t have a lot of power but she sure has heart.
When flying took guts
. An adventure , following your intuition.
"IRELAND!" Exactly where the sound temporarily failed at the drive-in where my dad and I watched it for my 6th birthday. :-)
The real Lindburgh was the most taciturn uneffusive man ever. I doubt he even smiled when spotting the shore
This is the first movie that had me look at a globe to figure out why a trip from New York to Paris would fly over Ireland. I basically took a string and connected the two points and the result was obvious.
Yes, great circle routes seem weird until you do exactly what you did with a globe.
That is exactly what they did as well
For those early trans-Atlantic aviators the E on the compass stood for Europe.
This flight made the world a WHOLE lot SMALLER
I'm still trying to work out why anyone would fly a plane that didn't have a front window. That's absolutely crazy!
Watch the movie again (?) and you'll have the answer...
Without going into too much detail.... 'Spirit of St Louis' was basically a flying fuel tank. in fact the fuel load doubled the Ryan's empty weight PLUS another 600lbs. To achieve required centre of gravity, the floor-to-roof tank was located behind the engine and in front of the pilot. Lindbergh had to rely on side windows for vision. Over 33 hours of solo flight across open ocean, hanging off a single radial engine. This was truly a time of get-things-done courage. Men of steel.
Read his publizer prize drama the spirit of st Louis and if you love the adventure of flying you will enjoy this story.
He didn't get a response from the fisherman because because the fisherman thought he was English.
If he really DID shout down to the fishing boat, it's unlikely the guy would have been able to understand him. In 1927, most of the people in that area would only have spoken Irish.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
It’s all good, ya frigging made it 1
They don't make them like this anymore
Depends on where you look. There’s bush pilots all over the world going incredible flying. But in terms of those record breakers, there aren’t just as many records to break, or they are being broken in ways and places you and I may not be aware of.
Wondering if anyone remembers his flying I’ve
ViVa Ireland
Only Jimmy Stewart could yell like that
Thank God he wasn't Cromwell.
Ops that's 1957 and by the way Alcock/Browns two Vickers propeller blades that got them across the Atlantic are in Ireland/UK with one likely being in a Pub as a ceiling fan and the other near a mural of the Aircraft they flew.
How are things in Glocca Morra?
Must of been some sight for the people of Dingle to have seen a plane, probably never seen one before. Ireland was a poor country at the time.
Did he actually try and help at ships?
@Andrew Ongais yell at ships, I like voice typing but it doesn't like me
@Andrew Ongais because it's easier than typing cuz it only fails occasionally
one great engine , one giant gas tank , a lot of luck !
And a giant set of balls.
@@irandoosty WORLD CLASS !
Americans thought they crossed the Atlantic first.....dont tell alcock and brown.
You are missing the word solo.
US Navy Rear Admiral Albert Cushing Read says hi. He and his crew made the first transatlantic flight in the NC-4, a Curtiss NC flying boat a few weeks before alcock and brown.
@@Dularr think your missing the words “non stop”
Solo, non-stop, New York to Paris...yes, we were the first. Thanks for playing!🇺🇸
Seeing American style fishing boats must have been a let down?
Jimmy Stewart made a better Lindbergh than Lindbergh did.
Worst HEY in the history of mankind
Sorry to the fans of Alcock/Brown but the first crossing of the Atlantic by air belongs to US and the plane that did it was a Curtiss N4 Flying Boat on display in Florida's Naval Aviation Museum. The USN Aircrew arrived in Portugal months before Alcock/Brown made Ireland and proved that it could be done even though they hopscotched their way over many weeks since it wasn't about winning a contest. Indeed the UK Daily Mail prize was for doing it in 72 hours and didn't say that it had to be done without stopping. Lindbergh did the first solo crossing and even a British Airship made a crossing after Alcock/Brown but like Earhart they only made it to Ireland not continental Europe. The film helped many forget Lindbergh's ugly Anti Semectic rants in the America First Movement where he claimed that those who wanted this war most were Jews. Indeed he nearly moved his family to Germany and when he he went as a technical advisor to inspect some forced labor camps that built V-2 components had more empathy for a piece of spun glass insulation on the ground than the lives lost there in his War Diary. Though he volunteered to fight his racist view were not forgotten but he was able to fly and even go on combat sorties as a aviation advisor in the Pacific Theatre where he showed pilots how to increase their range by adjusting engines/fuel settings which often was often forgotten about between takeoff/landing. It came out not that long ago that Lindbergh had secret families even though he remained married to Ann Murrow until he died and part of it was based on his racialist views he had expressed more than once in his lifetime. He died in Hawaii and had become an Environmentalist in his later years going as far as not wanting any metal even on the buttons he wore when he was buried and the public barely noticed showed the Lone Eagle had fallen long ago from the fame the film closed on in 1959.
Not really as great a feat as doing it non-stop though, was it.
@@unscentednapalm8547 you’re right, but don’t play down their achievement. Poor navigation equipment, no communication and zero chance of rescue if your engine quit. They were all very brave pilots, along with all the ones that failed and aren’t remembered
_First solo non stop_ crossing is a basic 'so what'. Rutan and Yeager didn't go around the world non stop solo and no-one cared. It really was a sub-category to fit in _Murica Yeah!._
To @given..Sorry for the late reply but was looking for your being appointed spokes person for the everyone else. The USAAF or Army Air force was the first to circumnavigate the globe by air and one of the original aircraft is in a Museum. The next achievement was in mid air refueling endurance and the USAF did another circumnavigation of the globle in B-52s decades after the first. So Heck Yeah Merica, in your words since the only Manned Space Flights leaving our Orbit was the US not Russia is still waiting to be bested nearly 60+ yrs later...
A lot of highly inaccurate points, but seems like a decent overall dramatization.
what the hell is all the fuss about, i`ve flown from America to Europe loads of time non-stop!!