DIVE BOMBER(1941) Original Theatrical Trailer

This fabulous technicolor production deals with a special US Naval aviation test unit and their attempts to correct some of the issues that affected pilots during high speed bombing dives. Great pre-WW 2 airplanes and aerial photography. The cast is made up of Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Regis Toomey, Ralph Bellamy and Craig Stevens.

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Entertainment

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• WW2
• War
• Movie
• Dive
• Bomber
• US
• Navy
• Errol
• Flynn
• Fred
• MacMurray

[mig25pd]

This is one film to watch when the wife goes out - close the blinds, get out a good scotch and good cigar. The back to the world of yellow wing Devastators, Vindicators and Helldivers; the smell of aeroplane hangars; sun and sea; California in the late 30s; cars with running boards and leather upholstery. No laptops, no time sheets, no freeways, no supermarket. All this and Alexis Smith.

[SupportingActor]

You got it! Even though the world was about to fully explode in WW 2, times were much simpler then!

[neptunisregis11]

Richard Best, one of the Navy pilots who bombed and sank the Akagi, flew in this movie. I think that it is the SBU-2 featured at the first part of this clip. The TBD-1's are from Bombing 6, these are the actual Torpedo Bombers that were destroyed in the Battle of Midway a little more than a year later. According to George "Tex" Gay of Torpedo 8, it was the first time he launched with a torpedo. Few things make me emotional, their sacrifice brings tears to my eyes.

[errolfan]

@mig25pd Well said. My compliments.

[irish89055]

"tell the comander not to hang around the radio tower, it's not becoming" lol MacMurray had a great delivery of lines...

[irish89055]

@errolfan loved this score and film is ok... the high altitude test scene is laughable.. Yes, God bless the men of Torpedo sq 8

[errolfan]

@44032 Flynn only helps out when MacMurrray runs low on oxygen. Sometimes he has to open a valve. Sometimes he has to take over the controls of the plane. Whatever Errol does, it can't help Fred in the end when he's up in the air alone, and runs out of (guess what?). Maybe he just didn't want the girl.

[44032]

Flynn, of course, does not play a "sky-diving hell-climbing pilot" in this film. He's a doctor. MacMurray is the pilot.

[errolfan]

@UmbrellaWatch This is Youtube, and I don't want to know what you're using. Try facebook.

[errolfan]

Some of the best aerial footage ever put to film.

[Davis4037]

one thing about this video, in 1941 the navy dive bomber was the SBD Dautless dive bomber, and its wings were never meant to be foldable

[UmbrellaWatch]

Loved it, and of course our good man Flynn. :) wonderful. Im feeling much better now, took a pill to go along with. :) missu. A!