Flyboys (film)
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| Directed by | Tony Bill |
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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 |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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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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