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Blaine Rawlings, a restless Texas rancher, joined up with every intention of quickly becoming an ace fighter pilot. As the flying proves more difficult and dangerous than he or any of the young Americans expected, though, the squadron grows into a supportive team of aviation pioneers.
Rawlings goes to Paris but does not find Lucienne. He later becomes owner one of the largest ranches in Texas, but never flies again. Cast. James Franco as Blaine Rawlings: A Texan faced with the foreclosure of his family ranch in Texas, who decides to enlist after seeing a newsreel of aerial combat in France.
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Sep 26, 2006 · First there's Blaine Rawlings (James Franco), the Texas cowboy who loses his ranch and ends up volunteering for the all-American Lafayette Escadrille, a French flying squadron that takes on the ...
Sep 22, 2006 · Talking by phone from New York, actor James Franco, who plays a World War I aviator in his new movie, "Flyboys," sounds perfectly sane. (See review on Page 37.) Then again, anyone who can elicit ...
Blaine Rawlings home town of Aberdeen, Texas, actually existed as a tiny town during World War Il having a post office that endured from 1889 to 1942. Located in the state's Panhandle, it lost its legal standing in 1963 due to loss of population but it continues endure as a tiny community.
This was a time when men were idealistic, but naive to embark on a great adventure. Blaine Rawlings (James Franco) was forced to leave his home in Texas after the family ranch was foreclosed by the bank. Blaine sees a newsreel of fighter-pilots in France and decides that he has nothing to lose.
Set in 1916, Flyboys tells the inspired-by-actual-events-and-people story of the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of 38 young Americans who sign up to learn to pilot some of earliest fighter planes. Their mission? To go head-to-head with the German aces. Blaine Rawlings is a Texas cowboy who just lost his family’s ranch to foreclosure.
