The Pilot.

Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, Bookmarks the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and supervisor of the movie Hell's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while at the same time expanding much more unsteady as a result of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The much but short advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis built by New Deal Studios get on display screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historical impressive that focused on a crucial period in the life of Howard Hughes among the most well-known and arguably vital men of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a full success, nor among his ideal motion pictures, I still find it to be more amusing than the majority of junk Hollywood blacks out on a weekly basis.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to remain up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself airborne only a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Detector Bros