A Yank in the RAF (1941) | |
| Director(s) | Henry King |
| Producer(s) | Louis F. Edelman (associate), Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War |
| Top Topics | Aviation, World War II |
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A Yank in the RAF (1941) was a War - Adventure Film directed by Henry King and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Louis F. Edelman.
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Tim Baker:
Well, I haven't looked at another girl since you left.
Carol Brown: Well, I've looked at other men.
Tim Baker: Maybe, but I'll bet you didn't look at them the same way you looked at me that first night in Kansas City. Remember?... You were going east, and I was going west; then we saw each other, and I was going east!
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Carol Brown: Well, I've looked at other men.
Tim Baker: Maybe, but I'll bet you didn't look at them the same way you looked at me that first night in Kansas City. Remember?... You were going east, and I was going west; then we saw each other, and I was going east!
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The 'Hollywood Reporter's' news articles reported that this movies' stars, Betty Grable and Tyrone Power, attended this picture's Hollywood Premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre where an estimated ten thousand people watched on.
This film's opening prologue states: "The Producers wish to express their appreciation to the officers and personnel of the Royal Air Force whose cooperation, under difficult conditions, made possible the filming of the aerial scenes in this production."
The original screenplay for the film had the American fly-boy character, Tim Baker, played by Tyrone Power, die at the end of the movie during a German aircraft attack. According to notes from the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library, a 25 November 1940 conference stated "the serious objection to Ty Tyrone Power' would be that audiences would resent his dying at the finish, and not getting the girl." Moreover, according to the book 'The Films of World War II' by Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and John Griggs, the British military establishment requested that the studio allow the character to live because "apparently they didn't want to give American moviegoers the impression that Americans helping Britain would die." Notes from the Script Collection report a further conference on 31 January 1941 substantiates this by saying that Zanuck had had discussions, "unofficially with some British officials." The English officialdom had felt that the lead character should not die thereby not showing any more deaths than those that were absolutely essential to the movie's story. Further, a movie star-vehicle at that time with Tyrone Power was also unlikely to have him killed at the end which also may have affected the box-officeread more facts about A Yank in the RAF...
This film's opening prologue states: "The Producers wish to express their appreciation to the officers and personnel of the Royal Air Force whose cooperation, under difficult conditions, made possible the filming of the aerial scenes in this production."
The original screenplay for the film had the American fly-boy character, Tim Baker, played by Tyrone Power, die at the end of the movie during a German aircraft attack. According to notes from the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library, a 25 November 1940 conference stated "the serious objection to Ty Tyrone Power' would be that audiences would resent his dying at the finish, and not getting the girl." Moreover, according to the book 'The Films of World War II' by Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and John Griggs, the British military establishment requested that the studio allow the character to live because "apparently they didn't want to give American moviegoers the impression that Americans helping Britain would die." Notes from the Script Collection report a further conference on 31 January 1941 substantiates this by saying that Zanuck had had discussions, "unofficially with some British officials." The English officialdom had felt that the lead character should not die thereby not showing any more deaths than those that were absolutely essential to the movie's story. Further, a movie star-vehicle at that time with Tyrone Power was also unlikely to have him killed at the end which also may have affected the box-officeread more facts about A Yank in the RAF...
