Wings of Eagles

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Wings of Eagles ★★½ 1957

Hollywood biography of Frank ‘Spig' Wead, a famous WWI aviation pioneer turned screenwriter. Veers wildly from comedy to stolid drama, though Bond's lampoon of Ford as “John Dodge” is justly famous. 110m/C VHS, DVD . John Wayne, Ward Bond, Maureen O'Hara, Dan Dailey, Edmund Lowe, Ken Curtis, Kenneth Tobey, Sig Rumann, Veda Ann Borg; D: John Ford; C: Paul Vogel.

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