I Wanted Wings (1941)

Directed by

Mitchell Leisen

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 15m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

How it feels

A young man wants to become a pilot in the US Army Air Corps. He joins the service and goes through training.

classicearnestpatrioticdateddramaticold-fashionedromantic

What happens

I Wanted Wings is a 1941 American drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and based on a book by Lieutenant Beirne Lay Jr. The film stars Ray Milland and William Holden. The supporting cast includes Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore and Veronica Lake. I Wanted Wings features Lake's first major film role. Her career took off shortly thereafter; the same year, she starred in Sullivan's Travels. Lake would become one of the most popular and successful actresses of the early 1940s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• West Point of the Air (1935)
• Flying Cadets (1941)
• A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
• Flying Blind (1941)
• Air Cadet (1951)
• International Squadron (1941)
• Emergency Landing (1941)
• Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.