“The Spirit of St. Louis” is a biographical drama, based on the book by Charles A. Lindbergh adapted by Charles Lederer and Directed by Billy Wilder.
The film is a Biography of Charles “Slim” Lindburgh’s life, covering the
period from his days on the precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy with his
friend Bud Gurney (Murray Hamilton) to his solo transatlantic crossing from Roosevelt
Field on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Airport in Paris.
But he was more than a pilot because Charles Augustus 'Slim'
Lindbergh (James Stewart) co-financed the Spirit of St. Louis, a fabric-covered,
single-seat, single-engine “Ryan NYP” high-wing monoplane which he jointly
designed with Ryan's chief engineer Donald A. Hall (Arthur
Space).
But the drama of the story comes once he is
airborne and alone in the empty skies with only the open ocean below him.
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