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Flyboys (film)

Flyboys
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Tony Bill
Produced by Dean Devlin
Marc Frydman
Screenplay by Phil Sears
Blake T. Evans
David S. Ward
Story by Blake T. Evans
Starring James Franco
Martin Henderson
Jean Reno
Jennifer Decker
Abdul Salis
Philip Winchester
Tyler Labine
David Ellison
Music by Trevor Rabin
Cinematography Henry Braham
Edited by Chris Blunden
Ron Rosen
Production
company
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • September 22, 2006 (2006-09-22) (United States)
  • June 1, 2007 (2007-06-01) (United Kingdom)
Running time
138 minutes
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English
French
German
Budget $60 million
Box office $17,834,865

Flyboys is a 2006 British-American war drama film set during World War I, starring James Franco, Martin Henderson, Jean Reno, Jennifer Decker, David Ellison, Abdul Salis, Philip Winchester, and Tyler Labine. It was directed by Tony Bill, a pilot and aviation enthusiast. The screenplay about men in aerial combat was written by Phil Sears, Blake T. Evans and David S. Ward with the screen story by Blake T. Evans. Themes of friendship, racial prejudice, revenge and love are also explored in the film.

The film follows the enlistment, training, and combat experiences of a group of young Americans who volunteer to become fighter pilots in the Lafayette Escadrille, the 124th air squadron formed by the French in 1916. The squadron consisted of five French officers and 38 American volunteers who wanted to fly and fight in World War I before the United States' entry into the war in 1917. The film ends with an epilogue that relates the fate of each American pilot to the real-life Lafayette Escadrille pilot upon whom his character was based.

In 1916, during World War I, a group of young Americans go to France, for different personal reasons, to fight in the French Air Service, L'Aéronautique militaire. These American recruits are under the command of French Captain Georges Thenault, with the veteran fighter ace Reed Cassidy as their mentor.

During their training, each pilot struggles with the demanding flying; later, they have to face the aerial dogfights that dominate the front line missions. One of them, Blaine Rawlings meets a young woman named Lucienne whom he courts despite her hesitations about his risky profession.


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