The Pilot.

Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be an effective movie producer and an aviation tycoon while all at once growing a lot more unpredictable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The much but short proclaimed trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis developed by New Bargain Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Aeronautics Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in other means, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the dismay of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers needed to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions as well as the time duration, given that when Hughes was suffering from the disorder, there was no psychological interpretation wherefore ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The aviator nation sale was launched in the United States on December 25, 2004, to favorable evaluations with critics commending Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.