Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the movie Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be a successful film manufacturer and Bookmarks an air travel tycoon while all at once growing much more unpredictable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).
The much yet short 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 miniatures constructed by New Bargain Studios are on display at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
It is a historic legendary that focused on a crucial duration in the life of Howard Hughes among the most perhaps vital and popular guys of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a full success, nor among his best motion pictures, I still discover it to be much more enjoyable than the majority of junk Hollywood craps out on a regular basis.
Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Pilot attempts to stay up, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo can keep itself airborne only a few mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator images: Miramax Warner Bros