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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be an effective film producer and an aviation tycoon while at the same time growing more unstable because of serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The brief however much advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis built by New Bargain Studios are on screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historical impressive that concentrated on a crucial period in the life of Howard Hughes one of one of the most probably vital and renowned males of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a complete success, nor among his finest motion pictures, I still find it to be more amusing than the majority of scrap Hollywood blacks out on a regular basis.

Appearing at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to stay aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself in the air only a few minutes at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator Nation zip up photos: Miramax Detector Bros