Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the film Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful film manufacturer and an aeronautics mogul while all at once growing extra unpredictable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The brief but much proclaimed flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures developed by New Offer Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
It is a historic epic that concentrated on a vital duration in the life of Howard Hughes one of one of the most renowned and probably crucial men of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a full success, Bookmarks nor one of his finest movies, I still locate it to be more entertaining than the majority of scrap Hollywood craps out on a regular basis.
Appearing at 169 minutes, The Aviator attempts to remain up, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can keep itself airborne only a few mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot pictures: Miramax Warner Bros