Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and director Bookmarks of the film Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being an effective film producer and an aeronautics magnate while all at once expanding extra unsteady due to severe obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The much yet short advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Beach The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis built by New Deal Studios are on screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historic legendary that focused on an essential period in the life of Howard Hughes one of one of the most famous and perhaps essential guys of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a complete success, neither among his finest motion pictures, I still locate it to be much more entertaining than most of junk Hollywood blacks out on a weekly basis.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Aviator attempts to stay up, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can maintain itself airborne just a couple of minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Warner Bros