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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and director of the film Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being an effective film producer and an aeronautics magnate while all at once expanding more unpredictable due to serious obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The short however much proclaimed trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis built by New Offer Studios are on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in danger his life in various other means, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The aviator sunglasses polarized with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions along with the time period, given that when Hughes was dealing with the problem, there was no psychological meaning for what troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was launched in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive evaluations with movie critics praising Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.