Turner Classic Movies Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the U.S. Air Force July 24 as Part of the Month-Long Aviation in the Mo
29 June 2007 - 3:08AM
PR Newswire (US)
ATLANTA, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- To commemorate the 60th
anniversary of the United States Air Force, which has a long record
of cooperating with Hollywood in portrayals of America's flying
force, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will air a collection of some of
Hollywood's most memorable military aviation films Tuesday, July
24, beginning at 8 p.m. (ET). The day devoted to the Air Force
comes as part of TCM's month-long Aviation in the Movies film
festival, which takes place each Tuesday in July. Kicking off TCM's
tribute to military aviation is a first-hand look at the United
States Air Force with Strategic Air Command (1955), starring James
Stewart as an Air Force officer recalled to duty. The film boasts
spectacular aerial photography of then-state-of-the-art bombers.
The evening continues with such high-flying military films as
Flying Tigers (1941), Air Force (1943) and Captains of the Clouds
(1942). TCM's Aviation in the Movies festival begins July 3 at
10:30 p.m. (ET) with a look at real-life aviators, including John
J. Montgomery, the unheralded 19th-century innovator of glider
design played by Glenn Ford in the biopic Gallant Journey (1946).
Setting the standard for portraying potential air disasters is
William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954), airing Tuesday,
July 10, at 8 p.m. (ET). The classic is based on Ernest K. Gann's
bestseller and stars John Wayne as the copilot of a passenger plane
that loses an engine during a flight over the Pacific Ocean. The
Aviation in the Movies festival also features several fetching
flight attendants, with Dolores Hart, Lois Nettleton and Pamela
Tiffin starring as a perky trio offering coffee or tea (and looking
for love) on a flight from New York to Paris in Come Fly with Me
(1963), airing Tuesday, July 17, at 10 p.m. (ET). And Spencer Tracy
stars in the high-flying WWII romance A Guy Named Joe (1943), set
to air Tuesday, July 31, at 8 p.m. (ET). Turner Classic Movies,
currently seen in more than 75 million homes, is a 24-hour cable
network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner
company. TCM presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from
the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and
Turner film libraries, from the '20s through the '90s,
commercial-free and without interruption. The network also offers
critically acclaimed original documentaries and specials, including
the recent Emmy-winning Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, as well as
the critically-acclaimed Brando, and Steve McQueen: The Essence of
Cool. For more information, visit http://www.tcm.com/. Turner
Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, is a major
producer of news and entertainment product around the world and the
leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry.
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