Wing and a Prayer Page #5

Synopsis: An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. All the men have their individual worries and concerns, but become increasingly frustrated at their avoidance of combat, for reasons unknown to them. But in the end, all get their chance to fight.
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Director(s): Henry Hathaway
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
APPROVED
Year:
1944
97 min
162 Views


I'm unvulnerable.

Come on.

Hit me.

Infnitestimal fortitude.

That's what I calls it.

Rock of Gibraltar.

Hold everything.

What you got

there?

Oh, isn't she lovely?

[Wolf Whistles]

Look at that!

Wow!

A love note.

Come on, read it.

Get out.

Come on.

"Dearest Hallam,

I couldn't sleep thinking

how lucky the girl was

in your picture

I saw last night

and thinking

how wonderful it would be

if I could have been her

and feel your strong arms

around me...

and your lips

pressed close to mine."

- Wait a minute!

- Hey!

Hey, get a load of this,

fellas.

"Dear hunk of man,

I'm a hep chick

who thinks

you're a solid piece

of what it takes."

Potassium phosphate,

potassium nitrate,

magnesium sulfate,

and calcium nitrate.

O.K.

What are you going

to use these for?

Shh.

Tomatoes.

Tomatoes.

Tomatoes?

Yeah.

I'm glad you dropped in,

Mr. Cunningham.

I wanted to congratulate you

on your citation.

Thank you very much,

Commander.

[Whistling My Bonny

Lies Over The Ocean]

Sir,

the medical offcer says

I'm completely O.K. Again,

in every respect.

That's great.

You agree with the M. O?

Yes, sir. I'd like

reassignment to flight duty

as soon as possible.

All right, Cunningham.

As soon as possible.

Thank you, sir.

O.K.

Torpedo Squadron Five

returning from search, sir.

Mmm.

Nice kid,

that Cunningham.

Yes, sir.

#The stars at night #

#Are big and bright #

[Fires Four Times]

# Deep in the heart

ofTexas #

#The prairie sky #

# Is wide and high #

[Fires Four Times]

# Deep in the heart

ofTexas ##

What are you shooting at,

Mr. Scott?

Well, nothing.

I'm just testing my guns.

Oh.

All personnel,

clear the afterdeck

during bombing practice.

All personnel,

clear the afterdeck

during bombing practice.

200 yards

astern of the sled.

10 yards to starboard.

Foley,

watch that sled.

Hear this!

All flight deck personnel

form line aport ship.

Clear deck

of bomb fragments.

[Whistle]

Lieutenant Commander Molton,

report to Air Plot.

Lieutenant Commander Molton,

report to Air Plot.

Landing

against wave-offs,

blowing up the sled.

Are you trying to kill

half the men here?

I'll talk

with him, sir.

I want

that man grounded.

Take that whole squadron

in hand, or I will.

Is that clear?

Quite clear, sir.

That's all.

[Laughing]

Got a match, Paducah?

Oh, yeah.

You've gotten off to a bad start

on this carrier.

There was very little

excuse for you, Scott,

and none at all

for you today, Brainard.

Hitting that sled

wasn't just carelessness.

No, sir. I wanted to see

if I could hit something.

You will.

You're going

to hit the deck.

You're grounded.

Grounded, sir?

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Jerome Cady

Jerome Cady (August 15, 1903 – November 7, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films as Guadalcanal Diary (1943), a successful adaptation of Forever Amber (1947) and the police procedural Call Northside 777 (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose onboard his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death, he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police. There was a Masonic funeral service for him. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Wing and a Prayer in 1944. A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with the Los Angeles Record, before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932. He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc. as its director of radio, returning to Los Angeles in 1936. He joined 20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed at RKO between radio jobs.. more…

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