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Flying Tigers
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by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Sales Rank: 18089
Price: $6.99
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Top gun john wayne leads a heroic squadron of american mercenary pilots against an overwhelming japanese air force in sky-blazing wwii action. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 11/09/2004 Starring: John Wayne Anna Lee Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Nr
Viewer Reviews
If I were rating this flick for historical accuracy, I'd give it just one star. (For the real story, turn to the book: Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942.) As an hour and a half of entertainment, however, it's probably worth three stars. This was John Wayne's first combat role, in 1942, and filming actually began while the American Volunteer Group was still in combat.
Where the movie really shines, though, is in the depiction of the Japanese fighters battled by Duke and his buddies: they're old-fashioned, fixed-landing-gear Nakajima Ki-27s, in footage clipped from Japanese feature films about the air wars in China and on the Soviet border. Those are indeed the planes that the AVG met in combat. So when you hear the Duke drawl, "Nack-ah-JEEM-ah," you can rest assured that you're hearing the real thing. They really were Nakajimas. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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