It's not bad or anything like that, but it's not as good as I expected it would be. It's really just mediocre at best. The story follows three Army Air Corps recruits; playboy Jeff Young (Ray Milland), mechanic Al Ludlow (William Holden), and former Notre Dame football star Tom Cassidy (Wayne Rogers). It follows their basic training, to their commission as officers, to goofing around, to an uninteresting love story. The love story in question involves Jeff, Al, journalist Carolyn Bartlett (Constance Moore), and nightclub singer Sally Vaughn (Veronica Lake). Well almost as soon as they meet them life just starts to fall apart for all 4, Cassidy crashes, Al gets kicked out and marries Sally, Al gets back into the Air Corps, Sally gets in trouble with the law and becomes a stowaway, the plane that she hides on crashes, and she ends up dead. It's almost kind of ridiculous. In all honesty, I don't remember what exactly I expected this movie would be like before I watched it, but I did expect it to be more interesting than what I got. It's kind of like Alaska Highway in that it could have been more than what it was. But it's better than that movie for a few reasons. First of all, this is more interesting. Secondly, the acting is actually pretty good so it has that appeal. That being said I don't really recommend it all that much because it's only average and at 2 hours and 15 minutes it's long.
Review of I Wanted Wings
