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- This movie was based on the real-life activities of American volunteers in the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) according to an article in the 5 November 1940 'Hollywood Reporter' and the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts Special Collections Library.
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Originally titled The Eagle Squadron, it is based on a story by "Melville Crossman", the pen name for 20th Century Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck. It follows an American pilot who joins the Royal Air Force (RAF), during a period when the United States was still neutral.
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This movie was based on the real-life activities of American volunteers in the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) according to an article in the 5 November 1940 'Hollywood Reporter' and the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts Special Collections Library.
A Yank in the RAF: Directed by Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner. An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Henry King
- 1942-02-09
A Yank in the R.A.F. is one of several movies produced just before or around the time of America's entry into WWII in which Americans join Allied forces as volunteers, but there is one film that followed just a few months later that was truly a knock-off: International Squadron (1941), a Warner Brothers B film starring Ronald Reagan. (In that ...
A Yank in the R.A.F. is a 1941 American black-and-white war film directed by Henry King, and is considered a typical early-World War II film. Originally titled The Eagle Squadron, it is based on a story by "Melville Crossman", the pen name for 20th Century Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck.
- Henry King
For most of the thrilling action, most of the tingling suspense, paced through this lively adventure-romance, which came to the Roxy yesterday, is creditable to the lads of the Royal Air Force ...
Originally titled The Eagle Squadron, it is based on a story by "Melville Crossman", the pen name for 20th Century Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck. It follows an American pilot who joins the Royal Air Force (RAF), during a period when the United States was still neutral.
