| | |  | VHS | Home » » Flying Tigers (John Wayne Collection Edition) [VHS] | | | | | | | Description: | | John Wayne plays the tough commander of Flying Tigers, the famous fighter squadron that fought to save China from the Japanese. Wayne finds he is fighting a war on two fronts: he's taking on the enemy with only a handful of inexperienced men and patched-up planes while keeping a cocky new pilot from stealing his girl. The story has little in common with real history, and lots of classic post-Pearl Harbor propaganda fills the script. Regardless, the movie is all Wayne's, and Wayne fans will enjoy seeing the prototype for what would become the Duke's trademark portrayal of the military fighting man. Although the pressure of making life-and-death decisions in wartime may be more maturely explored in Twelve O'Clock High, Flying Tigers still has enough characterization and action to keep the viewer's attention (not to mention special effects by the pioneering Howard Lydecker). --Mark Savary | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Gordon Jones | | Directors:
| David Miller | | Format:
| Color, NTSC, Full Screen | | Number of Tapes:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Republic Pictures Home Video | | VHS Tape Release Date:
| January 01, 1998 | | Run Time:
| 102 minutes | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 26 reviews |
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 Love all WW2 moviesMar 19, 2010
I am a collector, and love all the old old movies, remember seeing them as a child......when I die, I wish my grandchildren to see these wonderful movies, made in black and white and without foul language....
John Wayne, bless him, never made a dud movie in his lifetime...... cheers
 Flying Tigers : a propaganda movie in 1942Feb 11, 2010
FLYING TIGERS
By all means, this is not a great movie, propaganda being the essential of the subject. However, one has to remember that it was produced in 1942, at a dark time of WW II, when every success was so important for the American people to keep faith in the victory.
The movie tells the story of the legendary AVG (the American Volunteer Group) led by General Claire Chennault, in China. The AVG was there in 1942 to help Chinese to fight Japanese aircrafts which were bombing Burma and China.
The presentation of the warriors is very schematic, with the good Americans (even some Chineses) and the naughty Japaneses. Some dog fights between Curtiss P-40s and Japanese aircrafts are shown, which can be interesting on historical backgrounds. One can just regret that a love affair complicates the scenario.
It is interesting to notice that this movie is mentioned in the TV series "The War" in which a lady of Mobile (Alabama) is interviewed and declares that seeing the movie, she is enthusiastic when a Japanese flyer is being killed by the American hero!
A peek at the AVGOct 19, 2009
OK, in retrospect not a good movie to learn history by (the American Volunteer Group was primarily made up of U.S. military pilots "loaned" to China) nor was it a special effects spectacular (the cockpits of those P40s sure were roomy!) but it did tell the story of brave Americans trying to hold off the tide of the Imperial Japanese air forces. The story of American pilots flying against the Japanese at odds which would make most pilots think twice is a true one. This movie was produced after Pearl Harbor and helped to focus American attention on Japan's aggression, a subject which got little play until after bombs actually began falling on U.S. territory. Well worth finding and watching!
Warhawks Over ChinaJul 21, 2009
Mad magazine once provided a great skit on movies made during the war versus movies made after the war. When it comes to "Flying Tigers", it is DEFINITELY part of the first group! Why? Well, we get to see every Japanese pilot as unfair flyboys who shoot the enemy, shout a war cry when attacking, and generally behave like barbarous primitives attacking innocent victims in their campaigns.
Opposing this fight are honest heroic volunteer pilots, mostly American, who fought against overwhelming odds to defend Chinese food relief areas and Children's hospitals. Great stuff! The film gets into the action almost immediately with diving P-40 Warhawks taking on Japanese bombers with cockpit shots of heroic blue eyed pilots chewing gum and showing their serious "dealers of death" faces during combat. (Actually the British also had volunteer pilots in the battle as well and there was more than one type of allied fighter flying in this campaign.)
It was a movie that was necessary at the time due to the serious setbacks that we were encountering at the hands of the Axis powers in 1942. Positive results had to be found and it was found in the defenders of China.
It is a bit of a "Cowboys in the Air" drama. The leadership provided by John Wayne is excellent, but truthfully John Carroll has almost equal billing in this flick. Really excellent scenes of Japanese pilots and the seeming necessity of every one of them to be shot in the eyes as they are going down makes for a war bond and stamp rally in the back of the theatre after it is over. I myself was ready to buy at the back of my den after watching this film!
Anyway, it's a period piece. Enjoy the entertainment value, it's certainly cheap enough to buy and you will be getting a real classic from the war era.
Fightin' Jap's in ChinaDec 26, 2008
'Flying Tigers' is a classic, and I like the movie a lot. I've watched the movie quite a few times over the years. But there are some inaccuracies, like when the P-40's attack 'Nakajima's', they are actually Buffaloes(!), but some planes are Japanese. And when the P-40's make head on passes, they always manage to shoot the Japanese pilots/gunners in the face. With a few mistakes here and there, I still like the movie.
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