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Synopsis: In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Douglas Sirk
Production: Universal Pictures
 
IMDB:
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Year:
1957
91 min
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Tacked on the front

wall of our barn.

When and. Where was that?

1918. Back in Iowa.

What was on the poster?

A painting.

A portrait of a pilot

sitting in a warplane...

Captain Roger Shumann.

With the look of

eagles in his eyes.

You know something?

Something shameful?

In all these years, I've

never touched another book.

Oh, I'd hardly take

you for a bookworm.

I didn't realise till tonight

how much I missed reading.

- And where did you meet Roger?

- At an air show in my home town.

- August 17, 1920.

- How old were you?

- 16.

- And it was love at first sight?

For me it was.

Not for Roger?

Roger, he autographed

my programme for me,

and gave me a long look.

Same kind of look I'd been used to

getting from drugstore cowboys.

You went away with him that night?

He flew off alone, to Omaha.

- But you met up with him again.

- In Omaha.

- You followed him.

- Yes.

With Jiggs. I followed

Jiggs to the bus station.

When he got on the bus, I got

in the seat next to him.

How did Jiggs take to you?

Like a drugstore cowboy?

No.

He was smitten.

So smitten he was ready to splurge

on the best hotel in town.

What did Roger say to all this?

When Roger found me with

Jiggs, he swore like a sailor.

He made Jiggs feel like

two cents, me even less.

How did you change Roger's mind? Tell

him about the Liberty Bond poster?

No.

I had and I still have

a romantic notion

that a man must tell a woman

first about his love.

Yes. And?

I lied to Roger.

I told him I wanted to

be a parachute jumper,

and if he didn't take me with him,

I'd... I'd get somebody else.

- And that did it?

- Yes, that and...

a look in my eyes.

Or maybe it was the

shape of my legs.

Better let you get some sleep.

- Why don't you take the couch?

- Where'll you go?

I'll take the chair.

Thank you, very much.

You're just like Jack.

He can sleep anywhere.

- Bus seats, benches, anywhere.

- Does that include beds?

No, he doesn't like beds. They

remind him of... sickness.

- By the way...

- Yes?

When were you and Roger married?

It was the summer of 1923.

July 17.

We were in Portland, Oregon.

It was the night before a big show.

We were working late on our plane.

Then we went to the airport caf...

for some coffee.

What's the matter, Laverne?

That delayed jump this afternoon

give you the heebie-jeebies?

- I'm quitting.

- Hm?

Hey, Rog. Laverne

says she's quitting.

What is it? You fed up?

Scared? Or are you homesick?

No. It's just a fact of life.

I'm in a family way.

If you don't marry her, I will.

- Didn't you hear me?

- I heard you.

JIGGS:
Well...

What do you say?

Are you just gonna sit there?

Listen, I'm talking to you.

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George Zuckerman

George Zuckerman (August 10, 1916 – September 30, 1996) was an American screenwriter and novelist. Zuckerman began his career writing short stories for Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire in the 1940s. He wrote the stories for the 1947 films The Fortress and Whispering City before completing his first screenplay, Trapped, in 1949. Additional credits include Border Incident (1949), B-movies like Spy Hunt (1950), Under the Gun (1951), Taza, Son of Cochise (1954), and The Square Jungle, and his best known works, Written on the Wind (1956) and The Tarnished Angels (1958), both collaborations with director Douglas Sirk. Zuckerman's published novels include The Last Flapper (1969), loosely based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald and The Potato Peelers (1974). Zuckerman died in Santa Monica, California one month after his 80th birthday. more…

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