“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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