Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

mason_612 I watched this movie for the first time today. I have to say that it was pure rubbish. The most annoying thing was the trivialization of the War. At that time, Britain was fighting desperately for its life, men were fighting and dying for their country, and Power , a real smart-ass, and his two pals were much more interested in chasing the girl than flying. In one scene his mission was to drop information leaflets over Germany. While not very exciting this was an important method of countering German propaganda, as propaganda was all the German people had. Power could not be bothered , so he simply pitched the full boxes out. This of course would have been a court-martial offence at the time. These guys spent almost the entire movie, either on leave in London, or driving out to the country to chase the girl. At that time, gasoline was strictly rationed and would have been almost impossible to obtain for joy riding. The special effects were pitiful , even by 1941 standards. For example the near final scene shows Power flying a Spitfire in an aerial dogfight , with the canopy open. At 350 m.p.h I don't think so. Also , he started the movie flying multi-engine bombers, then all of a sudden he switches over to Spitfires, the finest fighter aircraft of WW2. Again, I don't think so. Don't ever waste your time by watching this pathetic stinker. I only gave it a 3 rating because Betty Grable's legs were worth a look. They were however no better than those of the rest of the girl's in the nightclub.

jt_3d Maybe this was a great flick. I didn't think so but I must have missed something because I didn't care about any of it. And yet others score it higher than my generous and benevolent 5/10. At first I cared; would Betty gain her senses and go with the suave Brit? Would she spy the other suave Brit who loved her from afar? No, she keeps running back to the jerk. And Power was a very annoying jerk. And it just keeps going on and on. Maybe I'm just jealous. I could never treat a woman like that and have her crawling back over and over.......Anyway, this movie could have had the chaps doing anything and it wouldn't have mattered. It had nothing to do with the war. It was a love triangle flick, with not enough action to keep the men in the audience interested. The lead lads could have been trucking dynamite over the Rockie Mountains, building a skyscraper in NYC or bagging groceries at the local Piggly Wiggly. It wouldn't have mattered. It was about the love triangle and that just does nothing for me, especially in a 'war movie'. There wasn't even a cliché chance for one of the competitors to save the other one and get killed in the process. No, in the end they traipse off as a threesome. Nothing is resolved and the jerk is still hitting on every woman he sees, nobody wins. I find it annoying.5/10 ...nope make that 4/10. What a waste of time.

Robert J. Maxwell I don't know why, but I always find myself enjoying this. It sounds like a typical war movie but it's mainly the story of a love triangle involving the cocky young pilot Tyrone Power, the sober but smitten Squadron Leader John Sutton, and the scrumptious Betty Grable. There are a few action scenes, well done for the period, but they provide background material. The focus is on the on-again off-again relationship between Power and Grable.One of the reasons it's so likable is that there are no villains except the Germans. Reginald Gardiner provides some comic relief as a pilot who is dying to meet chorine Grable but whose attempts to do so are always frustrated. Gardiner's self sacrifice is one of a few events that bring Tyrone Power to his senses and cause him to take both the war and his responsibilities to others seriously.Power himself was rarely more handsome or dashing. Over at Warners', Erroll Flynn was handling similar parts. Betty Grable has never looked better, more Midwestern, more cream fed, more succulent, more lustrously blond, more plump lipped and nubile. She was THE pin up girl of World War II. In her most famous photograph, she wears a modest one-piece white bathing suit, hands on hips, back to the camera, smiling at the camera over her right shoulder. Today the photo is an historical curiosity, but in its day the censors felt compelled to airbrush even the hint of her gluteal sulcus into nonexistence. Her legs were insured for a million dollars, according to legend, and those were days when a million dollars was still a lot of moolah.I always feel a little sorry for John Sutton, Powers' boss. He's respectful, polite, manly, brave -- and he loses the girl he loves because Tyrone Power was a bigger Hollywood star. Used to happen to me in high school all the time. I was a better kid than the coarse and vulgar captain of the football team, and I still can't understand why Evelyn Ritzko was more interested in him. However, Sutton, good man that he is, takes his ultimate rejection in stride.God, those Spitfires were beautiful airplanes, with their broad elliptical wings, and they were a pleasure to fly. Pilots used to other fighters complained that you couldn't GET them to drop their noses and dive. They simply floated along like a child's paper airplane.

Neil Doyle You know from the beginning that TYRONE POWER had better shape up as more than a playboy if he wants to win BETTY GRABLE's love in this entertaining wartime romance from Fox. Betty acquits herself very well in all the dramatic moments and looks as fresh as a daisy. Tyrone is at his handsomest and has some stiff competition in the "other man" department from JOHN SUTTON, who finally had a more substantial romantic role than usual.What with the romance between Grable and Power being shaky at best, you just know he's gonna have to reform himself with some wartime heroics as an R.A. F. flier before there can be a final clinch between the two.Crisply written with some good, natural dialog, beautifully filmed in glorious B&W, it's a well crafted film that deserves more attention from Betty's fans in particular. There's some nice chemistry going on between the three mentioned stars and it's certainly a worthwhile film to watch for fans of nostalgia. REGINALD GARDINER does a nice supporting role job as Power's debonair best friend.