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The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 aviation biography film in CinemaScope and Warnercolor from Warner Bros., directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Leland Hayward, and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his ...
- $7 million
- Leland Hayward
The Spirit of St. Louis: Directed by Billy Wilder. With James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson. Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
- (8.4K)
- Adventure, Biography, Drama
- Billy Wilder
- 1957-04-20
Synopsis. In 1927, in a hotel near New York's Roosevelt Field, air pilot Charles A. "Slim" Lindbergh has been waiting for seven days for the rain to stop, so that he can embark on what he hopes will be man's first successful nonstop trans-Atlantic flight to Paris.
- Billy Wilder
- James Stewart
"The Spirit of St. Louis" is a James Stewart one-man show. He is just fabulous in his role. Stewart, who was nominated for five best actor Oscars -- his one win was for "The Philadelphia Story ...
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- James Stewart
- Billy Wilder
- Biography
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Billy Wilder. Director, Screenplay. Charles A. Lindbergh. Novel. Wendell Mayes. Screenplay. Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.