Flight for Freedom (1943)

Directed by

Lothar Mendes

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fictionalized version of Amelia Earhart's life story. It focuses on her famous disappearance during a world flight. The film suggests her plane was lost while on a secret mission for the United States government.

dramaticpatrioticsensationalspeculativepropagandisticsomberfictionalizedwartime

What happens

Flight for Freedom (also known as Stand By to Die) is a 1943 American drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray and Herbert Marshall. Film historians and Earhart scholars consider Flight for Freedom an à clef version of Amelia Earhart's life story, concentrating on the sensational aspects of her disappearance during her 1937 world flight. The film's ending speculated that the main character's disappearance was connected to a secret mission on behalf of the U.S. government. As a propaganda film, the Japanese characters in Flight for Freedom were portrayed as devious and evil. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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