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This movie takes place in the late 1930's it is full of really cool cars and airplanes like the Gee Bee, Timothy Dalton plays a swashbuckling actor (like Erroll Flynn) who is a Nazi spy wanting to get his hands on a rocket pack that Howard Hughes developed. Cool cars, airplanes, Nazis bad guys fun fun fun
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Great movie. Bad DVD. Unfortunately this version is from the early days of DVD, when black bars were hard-coded into a 4:3 picture. This is NOT native widescreen, and creates a picture quality so low, when you are forced to zoom the picture, that VHS would be a more preferable option. It might look good on a late-90s CRT TV. If you're watching on an HDTV, get the BluRay. It's not a preference, in this case, it's a necessity.
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Fun, glamorous, old-style, Hollywood production about a couple of guys, one a pilot and the other a scientist, planning to win a flying race in 1940's Los Angeles. Cliff (the pilot) is trying out his new race-plane when a bunch of FBI agents, chasing a bunch of crooks, accidentally shoot his plane causing him to crash-land, destroying the plane. Peavy (the scientist) and Cliff later find what the crooks had stolen and hid in an old airplane in the hangar, a rocket suit! Cliff's girlfriend is a beautiful, aspiring, young starlet who has a bit part in a film with Nevil Sinclaire, a big-time actor (like Bogart or Gable). At a local air acrobat show, Cliff puts on the "rocket suit" and attempts to save the life of an old pilot named Malcolm who was trying to protect Cliff's job by taking his place when Cliff is late for the performance. Suddenly, the whole place is jumping! Everybody wants to know who the "Rocketeer" is. The problem is, the rocket doesn't belong to Cliff or Peavey, and the FBI is looking for it. As it turns out, so are the crooks who were hired to steal it, and a group of German Spies! Unknown to everybody else, Nevil Sinclaire is the head of the spy ring, and the Germans are trying to steal the rocket suit so that they can copy it and make flying soldiers to invade America and take over the entire world! Howard Hughes is the owner and inventor of the rocket suit, and along with Peavey and Cliff, and the mob thugs, take down Sinclaire, his German soldiers, and their Zeppelin, in the defeat of the Nazi plan. The rocket suit gets destroyed in the process, and Hughes gives Cliff a new race plane as a gift. Cliff's girlfriend rescued a copy of the rocket suit plans and gave them to Peavey. The movie ends with Cliff and his girlfriend kissing in front of the new airplane, and Peavey studying the rocket suit plans talking about how to improve it and make it really work! This was a really fun movie, and I highly recommend it for your enjoyment.Read full review
THE ROCKETEER IS A REMINDER OF THE SATURDAY MATINEE MOVIES YOU SAW AS A KID. WITH BAD GUYS AND HEROS WHO SAVE THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL. IT'S JUST NON-STOP ACTION WHEN A STOLEN JET PACK IS FOUND AND THE BAD GUYS TRY TO GET IT BACK . BILL CAMPBILL STARS AS CLIFF ALONG WITH HIS FRIEND PLAYED BY ALAN ARKIN , LEARN HOW TO USE THE JET PACK. AND JENNIFER CONNELLY PLAYS HIS GIRLFRIEND.TIMOTHY DALTON PLAYS THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHO'S GOT HIS OWN REASONS FOR WANTING THE JET PACK. IF YOU SEEK GREAT ENTERTAINMENT SEE THE ROCKETEER.
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The Rocketeer is a great old movie! Jennifer Cambell in one of her first movies, she Maverick's love interest in Top Gun! Lot's of excitement and action!
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