Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The wings of eagles [videorecording] / M-G-M presents in Metrocolor a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture ; produced by Charles Schnee ; screenplay by Frank Fenton and William Wister Haines ; directed by John Ford.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]

Description:

1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"Cmdr. Frank 'Spig' Wead was a pioneer aviator, renowned screenwriter (whose works included John Ford's They Were Expendable) and a man of war. The skies beckoned Spig to action; a crippling injury ultimately left him powerless to act, propelling him to discover the power of his pen. He was talented, driven, flawed, and a friend of Ford's--and the subject of this compassionate biography"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Series:

The John Wayne collection

John Wayne collection.

Subjects:

Wead, Frank W. (Frank Wilber), 1895-1947 -- Drama.

Air pilots -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.

Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.

Feature films.

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Biographical films.