I Wanted Wings (1941)

 'I Wanted Wings' is a movie made to promote the Army Air Corp while the U.S. was still at peace. Some good plane stuff but for the most part the movie is very dull when Veronica Lake is not on screen. This is the film which made Lake a star, she doesn't appear until around half way through but has a great introductory shot singing in a night club. Her character however is a real bitch, fakes a pregnancy to net a husband and later kills a man before dying in a plan crash (she had stowed away while wanted for murder). A young William Holden plays Lake's much put upon main love interest, Ray Milland and Constance Moore are nominally the films 'real' leads. Directed by Mitchell Leisen ('Remember the Night', 'The Big Broadcast of 1938') and co-written by Richard Maibaum, who wrote or co-wrote 12 of the first 15 Bond movies. **