The Aviator 2004 Movie .

Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became an effective movie producer and an aviation mogul while concurrently expanding much more unstable due to serious obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The brief but much declared flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis built by New Deal Studios get on display at the Evergreen Air Travel Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historical impressive that concentrated on a crucial period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most arguably essential and renowned guys of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a complete success, nor one of his ideal films, I still discover it to be much more enjoyable than most of junk Hollywood blacks out on a weekly basis.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to stay up, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself airborne only a few minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation hat photos: Miramax Warner Bros