Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective film manufacturer and an aviation tycoon while at the same time expanding much more unpredictable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).
The brief yet much advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis built by New Offer Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in danger his life in various other means, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.
Clocking in at 169 mins, The Aviator tries to stay aloft, Bookmarks but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can maintain itself airborne just a couple of minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Detector Bros