Flight Lieutenant (film)

Flight Lieutenant
Directed bySidney Salkow
Screenplay byMichael Blankfort
Story byRichard Carroll
(as Captain Richard Carroll)
Betty Hopkins
Produced byB. P. Schulberg
StarringPat O'Brien
Glenn Ford
CinematographyFranz Planer
Edited byCharles Nelson
Music byWerner R. Heymann
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 9, 1942 (1942-07-09)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Flight Lieutenant (aka Flight Captain and He's My Old Man) is a 1942 American drama war film starring Pat O'Brien as Sam Doyle, a disgraced commercial pilot who works to regain the respect of his son (Glenn Ford) against the backdrop of World War II. Its advertising slogan was "roaring with thrills, throbbing with romance" with the love interest provided by Evelyn Keyes as Susie Thompson.

Flight Lieutenant was directed by Sidney Salkow, a Harvard Law School grad who had himself served in the Pacific and been shot down.[1]

  1. ^ Wynne 1987, p. 172.

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