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Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, Bookmarks an aviation pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful movie producer and an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously expanding more unpredictable due to severe obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).
The short yet much heralded 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 built by New Bargain Studios are on screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
Besides, Hughes is barely averse at risking his life in other ways, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the dismay of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.
Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to stay up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo can maintain itself airborne just a couple of minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Warner Bros