Like the eagle

Movie
German title	Like the eagle
Original title	The Wings of Eagles
Country of production	United States
original language	English , German
Publishing year	1956
length	110 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	John Ford
script	Charles Snow
production	Frank Fenton William Wister Haines
music	Jeff Alexander
camera	Paul Vogel
cut	Gene Ruggiero
occupation
John Wayne : Frank W. "Spig" Wead Dan Dailey : "Jughead" Carson Maureen O'Hara : Min Wead Ward Bond : John Dodge Ken Curtis : John Dale Price Edmund Lowe : Admiral Moffett Kenneth Tobey : Cpt. Herbert Allen Hazard James Todd : Jack Travis Barry Kelley : Captain Jock Clark Sig Ruman : Manager Henry O'Neill : Captain Spear Willis Bouchey : Barton Dorothy Jordan : Rose Brentmann

Equal to the eagle (original title: The Wings of Eagles ) is a biography of the American director John Ford from 1956 about his friend, the US Navy pilot and screenwriter Frank Wead .

action

Frank Wead, a US Navy commander, fought alongside naval pilots during World War II . Falling down stairs paralyzed him from the neck down. The patriot becomes a national hero and initiates a campaign for the expansion of the armed forces. Now, at the encouragement of his colleagues, he begins to write what he uses to promote his former employer, the US Navy. He later becomes a Hollywood screenwriter and a friend of director John Ford.

background

The film contains elements of the then top secret Militant Liberty program, which was developed by Evangelical John C. Broger for the US Department of Defense.

Henry O'Neill played the last of almost 180 film roles in this film; he died four years later.

Reviews

“Partly rough, partly sentimental tragicomedy, which occasionally reveals an ambivalent relationship to the main character,” was the lexicon of international films

literature

• Frank W. Wead : Gales, Ice and Men. A Biography of the Steam Barkentine Bear. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York NY 1937.

See also

• John Wayne / filmography

Web links

• The eagle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Like the eagle in the online film database
• The eagle at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tony Shaw: Hollywood's Cold War. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst MA 2007, ISBN 978-1-558-49612-5 , p. 202 ff .: Chapter “Militant Liberty” .
2. ↑ Like the eagle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .