The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 biographical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. Its screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1954 Pulitzer Prize winning book of the same name. The film follows Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight in his Ryan NYP monoplane from its May 20, 1927, take off from Roosevelt Field and ends with his landing at Le Bourget...
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The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 biographical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. Its screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1954 Pulitzer Prize winning book of the same name. The film follows Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight in his Ryan NYP monoplane from its May 20, 1927, take off from Roosevelt Field and ends with his landing at Le Bourget Field in Paris on May 21.
The film begins the night before Lindbergh's historic flight, and tells in multiple flashbacks the story of his aviation career beginning with his first solo flight in 1923, as a barnstormer, in Army flight training, as a flight instructor, a Contract Air Mail pilot, his failed attempt to buy a Bellanca aircraft from the Columbia Aircraft Corporation, the gaining of financial support from the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, and the design and building of the aircraft "Spirit of St Louis".
After a difficult takeoff...
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