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  2. Captains of the Clouds - Wikipedia

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    The name was borrowed from a Victory Loans speech given by Billy Bishop. The only holdup was casting, which was resolved when Warner persuaded its resident "cocky guy" (as producer Jerry Wald had dubbed him), 42-year-old James Cagney, to take on the lead male role. [6] This film was Cagney's first in Technicolor. His participation in the ...

  3. Billy Bishop - Wikipedia

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    Air Marshal William Avery Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war, and also received a Victoria Cross.

  4. List of plays adapted into feature films - Wikipedia

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    Billy Bishop Goes to War (2010) Billy Budd (1962) Billy Liar (1963) Biloxi Blues (1988) Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935) Bird of Paradise (1932) Bird of Paradise (1951) Birds of Prey (1930) The Birdcage (1996), based on La Cage aux Folles (1978) The Bishop Misbehaves (1935) The Birth of a Nation (1915) The Birthday Party (1968) Bitter Sweet ...

  5. The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story - Wikipedia

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    Passengers gather at Ellinikon International Airport to board TWA Flight 847, which has just arrived from Cairo for its continuing flight to Rome's Fiumicino Airport. After the aircraft leaves Athens, two passengers, "Castro" and Saiid, brandish pistols and hand grenades and take over the plane. Derickson is forced at gunpoint to the flight ...

  6. The Kid Who Couldn't Miss - Wikipedia

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    The Kid Who Couldn't Miss is a 1983 docudrama film directed by Paul Cowan.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, it combines fact and fiction to question fighter pilot Billy Bishop's accomplishments during World War I, featuring excerpts from John MacLachlan Gray's play Billy Bishop Goes to War. [1]

  7. The Disappearance of Flight 412 - Wikipedia

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    To find the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412, with Captain Bishop (David Soul) as commander. Lt Podryski (Greg Mullavey), Capt Riggs (Robert F. Lyons), and Lt Ferguson (Stanley Bennett Clay) are Bishop's crew. Shortly into the test, the Grumman Gulfstream II jet, a small twin-engine VIP transport, picks up three blips on radar ...

  8. Death in Paradise (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Stone has Suit stake out the hotel that Shaw meets girls at, and when Shaw arrives Stone and Suit break in and catch Shaw in the act with a fifteen-year-old girl. During questioning, Shaw admits to killing Billie after she began threatening to turn him in to the police.

  9. Dangerous Passion - Wikipedia

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    Dangerous Passion is a 1990 American made-for-television crime thriller film starring Carl Weathers, Billy Dee Williams and Lonette McKee, and directed by Michael Miller. The film, produced by Carolco Pictures , premiered on the ABC network on March 25, 1990.