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...armada of B-17s that bravely, and at terrible cost to both sides, failed to bomb Germany into submission during World War II. There was, as well, a previous movie that took its title from that plane: a documentary about its last mission, which director William Wyler made for the government in 1944. Despite the propaganda imperatives imposed on it, his film was rightly praised for its realistic portrayal...
...Wyler's daughter Catherine is a producer and the chief instigator of the new, fictive Memphis Belle, which displays the same flaws and virtues as her father's work. Despite the passage of a demythifying half-century, this well- cast plane crew (Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz, among others) remains as wartime Hollywood insisted on imagining it. These men are of diverse backgrounds, grousing (but never cynical), scared (but never immobilized), setting aside their small, usually comical, differences to form a unit that, in both efficiency and common decency, no tyranny could hope to beat. The presence of a smarmy...
...Unlike the Mayers and Warners, he made relatively few films, and he never built a mighty empire with a huge star roster and an immense distribution network. He was the ultimate independent producer, with a compulsive need for autonomy and control ("I made Wuthering Heights," he once said. "((William)) Wyler only directed...
Behind the cameras were almost all the directors whose work is so avidly studied in the film schools, a group that included John Ford, George Cukor, George Stevens, Cecil B. DeMille, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, Busby Berkeley, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch and Victor Fleming. Behind them were the producers, who were far more important then than they are now, men such as David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl F. Zanuck, Pandro S. Berman, Hal Wallis and Arthur Hornblow...
...where movies, as well as deals, were made. Very few pictures were shot on location, and inventive scouts either found or contrived every scene they wanted within a few miles of Hollywood and Vine. The Yorkshire moors of Wuthering Heights were so faithfully recreated in nearby Chatsworth that director Wyler bragged that his field of heather looked more authentic than a real field of heather...