"Wings for the Eagle" is a wartime propaganda film from Warner Brothers. It's generally good and worth watching, but the writing is extremely inconsistent....frustratingly so.
The story begins just before the US entered WWII. Dennis Morgan plays Corky Jones...an unlikable and annoying guy. He is not the least bit patriotic and obtains a job with Lockheed building airplanes...but not because he adores the USA but because he figures when the US goes to war, the assembly line workers will be exempt from the draft. And, to make him even more unlikable, he's an obnoxious cad and sexual harasser who spends most of the movie trying to steal his best friend's wife!! I really wish the writing of this character was better. I don't think they needed to make him super nice but in the film he's just a jerk....and so the expected transformation at the end just seems obligatory and not exactly believable.
So is it all bad? No. Many of the characters are quite good, especially the immigrant supervisor played wonderfully by George Tobias. And, the story when it's not focused on Corky is quite nice as well. Overall, worth seeing but a highly flawed film.
The story begins just before the US entered WWII. Dennis Morgan plays Corky Jones...an unlikable and annoying guy. He is not the least bit patriotic and obtains a job with Lockheed building airplanes...but not because he adores the USA but because he figures when the US goes to war, the assembly line workers will be exempt from the draft. And, to make him even more unlikable, he's an obnoxious cad and sexual harasser who spends most of the movie trying to steal his best friend's wife!! I really wish the writing of this character was better. I don't think they needed to make him super nice but in the film he's just a jerk....and so the expected transformation at the end just seems obligatory and not exactly believable.
So is it all bad? No. Many of the characters are quite good, especially the immigrant supervisor played wonderfully by George Tobias. And, the story when it's not focused on Corky is quite nice as well. Overall, worth seeing but a highly flawed film.