SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

jacobs-greenwood One might logically assume that God is my Co-Pilot (1945) would be about a pilot's faith and, upon learning that it's about a fighter pilot during World War II, would describe how God was a constant companion from which he drew strength and how He helped the man survive dangerous missions through prayer etc. Nope.Instead, God is my Co-Pilot is fairly short on faith while being pretty long on the stereotypes of the genre at the time, like the derogatory language used to refer to the United States' enemy Japan, and its Zero pilots. In fact, the only time one witnesses Colonel Scott praying is near the story's end, when he prays to be part of a last mission to bomb the Japanese to Hell!Other than these disappointments, this Robert Florey directed WW II drama, adapted by Peter Milne and Abem Finkel (who shared an Oscar nomination for adapting Alvin York's WW I diary in the superior faith-based war drama Sergeant York (1941)), features some pretty good aerial combat action while detailing how the China-based Flying Tigers - led by Major General Claire L. Chennault - were so successful: they obtained military intelligence from a network of thousands of Chinese to prepare and stage their defenses in advance of any Japanese attack.Dennis Morgan plays Scott, Raymond Massey plays Chennault. Dane Clark and John Ridgely play two of Scott's fellow Flying Tigers. Andrea King plays Scott's wife Catherine, back in Georgia. Stanley Ridges and Minor Watson also appear, as officers. Richard Loo plays Tokyo Joe, Scott's chief rival in the air, and (uncredited) Philip Ahn plays a character akin to the war's Tokyo Rose, who spouted (sometimes false) propaganda over the radio to upset the Americans stationed in the Pacific.The real Scott was a war hero, notable for downing 13 of Japan's aircraft, and he may have had great faith - though he's portrayed as more self-reliant in this film. There is a faithful American - a China missionary - portrayed in the story, though Big Mike Harrigan (played by Alan Hale) appears to be a fictional character. Harrigan does pray on a couple of occasions, the last at the movie's end.

AaronCapenBanner Robert Florey directed this biographical account of Col. Robert Lee Scott(played by Dennis Morgan), a pilot during WWII who is flying transport planes over China, but really wants to soar with the Flying Tigers, an elite aerial squadron fighting the Japanese. Major General Chennault(played by Raymond Massey) gives him his chance, even though at 34 he is a bit old. Col. Scott distinguishes himself by successfully shooting down the enemy, including hated turncoat pilot called 'Tokyo Joe', who loved to taunt his former countrymen. Good model F/X and flying sequences compensate for clichéd script; one of the last patriotic morale boosters before the war ended.

Neil Doyle DENNIS MORGAN is one of those actors under contract to Warner Bros. who seldom got a chance to do anything but lightweight roles and occasionally given a fairly good musical such as the Technicolored MY WILD IRISH ROSE where he played Chauncey Olcott, songwriter.But GOD IS MY CO-PILOT is a rarity in that he gets to fill most of the screen's running time as Col. Robert Lee Scott, one of the first Americans to join the "Flying Tigers" just before World War II. Scott went on to a distinctive wartime record and only recently died at a ripe old age, a hero of his hometown of Macon, Georgia.The film is a typical Warner war film--cast with all of their most dependable stock company players--including RAYMOND MASSEY, ALAN HALE, CRAIG STEVENS, newcomer MARK STEVENS, ANDREA KING, DANE CLARK, JOHN RIDGELY and DONALD COOK. But as a film, it falls strictly into the Saturday afternoon adventure mold for kiddies, only occasionally rising to the occasion of being a good biography of the wartime hero.Despite the rather plum role, Morgan is still a lightweight, leaving the heavier histrionics to Raymond Massey and Alan Hale--but his fans loved him in this, regardless. It's probably the film he's most remembered for during the '40s.And incidentally, there was no political correctness going on in the '40s as far as America and the Japanese were concerned, for those taking affront at the slurs against "the Japs". That's the way they were regarded then. Even having dishes that bore "Made in Japan" on them, was enough for an American to consider throwing them out. That's how it was--deal with it.

bkoganbing I've now had to edit this review with the news of the death of Colonel Robert L. Scott, Jr. at the grand old age of 98. He was a genuine war hero and the leading citizen of his home town of Macon, Georgia.The book on which this film was based was written in the flush of VJ Day after our Pacific victory. Moods and attitudes don't change so easily and when Warner Brothers made this film we were in our World War II mode. I do wonder if Scott had waited a few years before selling the film rights would the picture have included all the racial cracks about the Japanese? Probably so because those were our attitudes and Japan was the enemy.But I doubt the enemy would have been so personalized as Richard Loo's character with the buck teeth and the Charlie Chan dialog. Even 12 years later in The Bridge Over the River Kwai, the Japanese are cruel and despotic without being stereotyped. I doubt if Sessue Hayakawa would have played it the way Richard Loo did, who in fact was Chinese and his country was fighting the Japanese. Because of the racial stuff, God Is My Co-Pilot is not as well regarded today as it could have been. That's a pity because Dennis Morgan does a grand job in portraying a genuine American hero. It and Chauncey Olcott in My Wild Irish Rose are probably the roles Morgan is best known for today. Also Raymond Massey as General Claire Chennault and Alan Hale as a Catholic missionary priest are memorable.Of course if the film had come out years later, Jimmy Stewart would have insisted on playing Scott. But he was still busy in the real Army Air Corps at the time.