Short version of Howard Hughes' remarkable life and times

Rating: 7/10 (29 June 2007)

This review stems from a "rewatch," the first viewing occurring on New Year's Eve. It's a fairly long movie and our group was there through the ending into the new year in a nearly empty theater. But this is worthwhile movie-making; the writers give us a true American hero who takes on the State and, at least for a while, wins.
Hughes was the son of a Texas oilman-inventor who set up a company and earned a fortune; the old man died when Howard was 18, leaving Howard as a multimillionaire engineering student. The Aviator follows Howard from 1930, when he produced the movie Hell's Angels, to 1947 when, at the age of 42, Howard flew the H4-Hercules aircraft he had designed and built (aka the Spruce Goose)...
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Brian Wright Copyright 2007