Test Pilot Page #2

Synopsis: Jim Lane is a test pilot, whose professional life is dangerous, and whose personal life compensates for that danger by fast living and recklessness. As such, he lives from paycheck to paycheck, and is often in debt, but knows his lucrative job will eventually get him out of those debts. On a coast to coast record attempt speed flight, Jim's plane, the Drake Bullet (named after the company's owner), hits some mechanical problems and Jim is forced to make an emergency landing on a farmer's field in Kansas. The farm belongs to the Barton family, whose straight talking daughter, Ann Barton, falls for Jim, and visa versa. They impulsively decide to get married and live in New York. Jim's sidekick and mechanic, "Gunner" Morris, doesn't know if Jim and marriage go hand in hand, both because of the type of person he is and his profession. Ann too soon learns that she plays second fiddle to Jim's work, she referring to the sky as Jim's mistress. Ann also truly comes to understand the dangers of
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Victor Fleming
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PASSED
Year:
1938
119 min
135 Views


Just ask for gunner. Tell

Him I'm calling. I'm Jim Lane.

That's all

You have to do.

Why don't you

Call him yourself?

Hey, I got to get

These lines out of here.

You don't think I want to be stuck

In this dump all night, do you?

I don't care very much

One way or the other.

All right, all right!

I'll pay for it.

Don't worry about that.

Listen, swellhead, you're

On private property,

And very uninvited.

How'd you like to get

That junk over the fence

Before I sic

A bull on you?

Say, I'm just in the mood

For a bull, sister.

You go get him. I'm liable to pick him

Up and throw him right back in your lap.

I know you.

You're the prince-

A nice,

Charming prince,

Right out of

The sky-

A young girl's

Dream.

And I've been waiting

For you all my life.

That's why no other man ever

Touched the tip of my finger.

I have lived

For a prince.

What's the matter?

Too much for you?

You're a funny-looking gazabo.

Yeah.

Are you a famous

Flier, Mr. Lane?

Why, I'm Jim Lane.

Should I faint

On that one?

Say, where

Do you live?

I still live there. I haven't

Moved since I told you.

Can I use your phone?

It's all right with me if

It's all right with the phone.

What's your name?

Ann barton.

And we're near wichita, are we, ann?

And it's still

20 miles.

That's right. You told me

That before, too, didn't you?

What time is it?

About 6:
00.

Didn't ask you that

Before, did I?

No. Don't

Startle me so.

Do all the girls around

Here look like you

This early

In the morning?

Every girl I've ever seen this ear-

Yeah. Look at

All the hay.

That's wheat.

Oh.

The staff of life.

Is it?

It's nice here

At that, isn't it?

I'm so glad

You like it.

How many waffles

Can you eat, Mr. Lane?

How many

Have you got?

That's all

I want to know.

Come along.

Keep following me.

Hey, where did you get such

A nice father and mother?

I took time

Picking them out.

Oh.

Say, this is a pretty

Room. This your room?

No. This is

The spare room.

Oh. This is where I'd

Stay if I were a guest.

That's right...

If you were

Stuck here.

Hmm.

Oh.

What's the matter?

No towels.

I'm stuck.

Oh, dear.

You're not supposed

To say "oh, dear."

You should say,

"that's all right."

I've been around here too long

Now not to say what I mean.

Quite an imagination

For an aviator.

Can't match yours, pal.

You went to school.

I didn't

Learn it there.

Don't get lost.

No, no. I won't.

Ann keeps all those

Records in the books.

Ann went to school.

Smart. Ann graduated from the

State university, Mr. Lane,

With the highest

Honors.

Didn't you, ann?

Oh, you bet.

I broke all records.

Did you go

To college, Mr. Lane?

Ha ha ha!

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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