Test Pilot (film)

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Test Pilot
Original film poster
Directed by	Victor Fleming
Produced by	Louis D. Lighton
Written by	Howard Hawks John Lee Mahin
Starring	Clark Gable Myrna Loy
Running time	118 min.
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Test Pilot is a 1938 film that tells the story of a test pilot (Clark Gable) and his wife (Myrna Loy), who unsuccessfully try to keep their best friend (a chronically gum-chewing Spencer Tracy), another test pilot, from drinking. The movie also features Lionel Barrymore.

Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and Waldemar Young, and directed by Victor Fleming. Based on a story written by Frank Wead (a writer later portrayed by John Wayne in John Ford's The Wings of Eagles).

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Victor Fleming
1910s	When the Clouds Roll by (with Theodore Reed)
1920s	The Mollycoddle | Mama's Affair | Woman's Place | The Lane That Had No Turning | Red Hot Romance | Anna Ascends | Dark Secrets | Law of the Lawless | To the Last Man | The Call of the Canyon | Code of the Sea | Empty Hands | The Devil's Cargo | Adventure | A Son of His Father | Lord Jim | The Blind Goddess | Mantrap | The Way of All Flesh | Hula | The Rough Riders | Abie's Irish Rose | The Awakening | The Wolf Song | The Virginian
1930s	Common Clay | Renegades | The Wet Parade | Treasure Island | Reckless | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Captains Courageous | Test Pilot | The Wizard of Oz | Gone with the Wind
1940s	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Tortilla Flat | A Guy Named Joe | Adventure | Joan of Arc
Productions	The White Sister (1933)