The War Lover
While stationed in Britain in 1943, hotshot bomber pilot Captain Buzz Rickson is in command of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, but his cockiness soon begins to annoy everyone around him.
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"Aviation author Martin Caiden (his books were the basis for the film "Marooned" and the t.v show "The Six Million Dollar Man") published a book entitled "Everything But The Flak" that detailed the efforts to revive three Navy PB-1 Flying Forts and the ensuing flight adventure of moving them across the Atlantic to England for the making of "The War Lover" which is a "must read" for those interested in the making of this film. He accompanied the flight crews and although his larger-than-life account of their hijinks (rumbling with Soviets in the ..."
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Warren Beatty turned down the role of Rickson, possibly because he had recently caused the divorce between Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, and the two men were not on speaking terms.
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While stationed in Britain in 1943, hotshot bomber pilot Captain Buzz Rickson is in command of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, but his cockiness soon begins to annoy everyone around him.