God Is My Co-Pilot (film)
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| Directed by | Robert Florey |
| Produced by | Robert Buckner |
| Written by | Abem Finkel Peter Milne |
| Starring |
Dennis Morgan Dane Clark |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography |
Sidney Hickox Charles A. Marshall |
| Edited by | Folmar Blangsted |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Release date
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February 21, 1945 (Premiere: Macon, Georgia) |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
God is My Co-Pilot is a 1945 American black-and-white biographical war film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Robert Buckner, directed by Robert Florey, that stars Dennis Morgan and co-stars Dane Clark and Raymond Massey. The screenplay by Abem Finkel and Peter Milne is based on the 1943 autobiography of the same name by Robert Lee Scott, Jr. (April 12, 1908 – February 27, 2006) and tells the story of Scott's involvement with the Flying Tigers and the United States Army Air Forces in China and Burma during World War II.
At age 34, Army Air Force pilot Major Robert Lee Scott Jr. (Dennis Morgan) is considered too old to fly in combat, but he is recruited and volunteers to fly in a secret bombing mission from the Philippines against Tokyo, the Japanese capital. When the mission is cancelled after his arrival in India because of the fall of the Philippines, Scott is promoted to Colonel and is then assigned to fly transport aircraft. He flies dangerous, unescorted missions over The Hump from Burma to China in order to supply aviation gasoline and other much-needed supplies to the three squadrons of the American Volunteer Group, the Flying Tigers.
Over time, Scott persuades General Claire Chennault (Raymond Massey), the commander of the Flying Tigers, to let him fly with his experienced airmen, like "Tex" Hill (John Ridgely), who have been fighting the Japanese as mercenaries while technically being members of the Chinese Air Force. Scott gets his chance to finally fly one of their Curtiss P-40B/C Tomahawks, engaging in aerial combat missions and becoming a double-ace while flying with the Tigers.
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