The ROCKETEER

The ROCKETEER
(vt The Adventures of the Rocketeer)
   Film (1991). Walt Disney. Dir Joe Johnston, starring Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino. Screenplay Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo. 108 mins. Colour.
   This enjoyable big-budget re-creation of the thrills of 1930s B-serials - more accurate but less popular than Steven SPIELBERG's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - features gangsters, G-men, Nazis, pilots, movie stars, a dirigible, Howard Hughes (1905-1976) and (in thin disguise) Errol Flynn (1909-1959) and Rondo Hatton (1894-1946). The Flynn character,played with relish by Dalton, is the villain; the gangster boss (Sorvino) discovers his true loyalties ("I'm a hundred per cent American") when he realizes he has been helping Nazis steal an experimental rocket pack; there is an excellent re-creation of a Nazi propaganda cartoon. Unlike the greedy, cynical, individualistic Indiana Jones, the old-fashioned Rocketeer, the uncharismatic Campbell, is law-abiding and patriotic - andoutshone by the scheming Dalton.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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