SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS

 

 

James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson

Warner Bros.; Directed by Billy Wilder

Rated PG; 135 minutes; 1957

 

 

This film is a biography of Charles Lindbergh’s historic but harrowing flight from New York to Paris in 1927.  In the form of flashbacks we are taken through his life beginning with mail run flights, his design of a transatlantic plane and eventually to the flight that would change the course of history.