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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be a successful movie producer and an air travel mogul while concurrently growing more unpredictable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The short but much advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis developed by New Bargain Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Aviation Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in danger his life in other ways, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), Bookmarks the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' behaviors in addition to the time period, given that when Hughes was suffering from the condition, there was no psychiatric definition of what ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the USA on December 25, 2004, to favorable reviews with doubters praising Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.