The Flying Irishman

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The Flying Irishman
Directed by	Leigh Jason
Written by	Ernest Pagano Dalton Trumbo
Starring	Douglas Corrigan
Music by	Roy Webb
Cinematography	J. Roy Hunt
Editing by	Arthur E. Roberts
Distributed by	RKO Pictures
Release date(s)	April 7, 1939
Running time	91 min.
Country	US
Language	English
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The Flying Irishman is a 1939 biographical drama film produced by RKO Pictures in 1939 about Douglas Corrigan's unofficial transatlantic flight the previous year. Directed by Leigh Jason to a screenplay by Ernest Pagano and Dalton Trumbo, the film was made quickly to exploit the huge public interest in the adventure, and starred Corrigan as himself in the lead role. Many of the other parts were played by established character actors, however, which undermined its attempt at realism.

The film covers the material of Corrigan's autobiography from his early life to his return from his wrong-way flight. Because of the huge popularity of Corrigan and his flight, the screenplay assumes that the material is already familiar to its audience.

[edit] Cast

• Douglas Corrigan as himself
• Paul Kelly as Butch Brannan
• Robert Armstrong as Joe Alden, the flying instructor
• Gene Reynolds as Douglas Corrigan as a boy
• Donald MacBride as Roy Thompson
• Eddie Quillan as Henry Corrigan, Douglas' brother
• J. M. Kerrigan as Clyde Corrigan Sr., Douglas' father

[edit] References

• Corrigan, Douglas. That's My Story (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1938)

[edit] External links

• The Flying Irishman at the Internet Movie Database