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Released
1942 · FILM

Flying Tigers

Strong BRAVE MEN FLYING IN THE FACE OF DEATH THAT WE MAY Live

Directed by
Runtime
102 min
ActionDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Jim Gordon leads a unit of the Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group that engaged Japanese forces in China prior to the United States entering World War II. He must dispatch his outnumbered squadron of fighter pilots against superior enemy numbers while managing the varied personalities and issues of his fellow aviators.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ernest J NimsShot by Jack A MartaScored by Victor Young

Also known as

  • Unternehmen Tigersprungde
  • Tigres del airees
  • Les Tigres volantsfr
  • I falchi di Rangoonit

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