Howard Hughes was a prolific filmmaker, who enraged censors by pushing the boundaries and doing whatever he had to get his films made his way. This documentary explores the public and private life of this influential twentieth-century American. Read more
| Genres | Documentary |
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Howard Hughes was a prolific filmmaker, who enraged censors by pushing the boundaries and doing whatever he had to get his films made his way. This documentary explores the public and private life of this influential twentieth-century American.
| Studio | DELTA VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT |
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| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 25 mins |
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| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 21 Feb 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
The documentary is mostly black and white stills from various movies and events, with a narrative voiceover.
There are also recent interviews with a psychologist who interviewed Hughs before his death.
Its an interesting documentary, but no visual spectacular !
Howard Hughes was a prolific filmmaker, who enraged censors by pushing the boundaries and doing whatever he had to get his films made his way. This documentary explores the public and private life of this influential twentieth-century American.
There haven't been many WWI dogfight movies since I dunno The Blue Max? A popular genre in the 1920s and 30s (you will recall Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes going for broke in The Aviator) it fell by the wayside after WWII for all the obvious reasons. You would imagine that the primary motivation to revive the genre today would be to reflect on current events in some form. But maybe not: Flyboys harks back to such unfashionable ideas about heroism and war, it might have been written in 1916 Read more