Flying Tigers (1942)

Directed by

David Miller

Genre

drama film, action film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

American volunteer pilots fly combat missions against the Japanese in China before the U.S. enters World War II. The film follows their daring aerial battles and personal rivalries within the group.

patrioticrousingsentimentalbriskpropagandisticnostalgicstraightforwardidealized

What happens

Flying Tigers (a.k.a. Yank Over Singapore and Yanks Over the Burma Road) is a 1942 American black-and-white war film drama from Republic Pictures that was produced by Edmund Grainger, directed by David Miller, and stars John Wayne, John Carroll, and Anna Lee. Flying Tigers dramatizes the exploits of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), Americans who fought the Japanese in China during World War II. The movie portrays them as fighting before U.S. entry into the war but, in point of fact, they did not see action until after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is unabashedly a wartime propaganda film that was well received by a 1940s audience looking for a patriotic "flagwaver". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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