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''I Wanted Wings'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and based on a book by Lieutenant Beirne Lay, Jr. The film stars Ray Milland and William Holden. The supporting cast includes Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore and Veronica Lake. ''I Wanted Wings'' features Lake's first major film role. Her career took off shortly thereafter; the same year, she starred in ''Sullivan's Travels''.〔Lenburg 2001, p. 33.〕 Lake would become one of the most popular and successful actresses of the early 1940s. ==Plot== After an air raid exercise in Los Angeles involving 18 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, one of them goes down in the desert on its way back to base. Mysteriously, the dead body of a woman is found in the wreck. The pilot, Jefferson Young III (Ray Milland), is accused of having an unauthorized passenger on board and charged accordingly for disobeying orders. Before the court martial decides on a ruling, they review Jeff's military background and history. The son of a wealthy Long Island businessman, Jeff joins the U.S. Army Air Corps. At basic training in Texas, he meets former football hero Tom Cassidy (Wayne Morris) and Al Ludlow (William Holden), a garage mechanic. Jeff and Al become close friends and support each other through training. Jeff meets a girl named Sally Vaughn (Veronica Lake), unaware that she used to be Al's sweetheart. Although Jeff is already in love with photographer Carolyn Bartlett (Constance Moore), Sally sees her chance when Jeff gets drunk in the aftermath of a crash in which one of his buddies perished and Carolyn is out of town. Fortunately, Al comes between them and pulls Jeff away. After this, Jeff continues to court Carolyn. During training at another airfield, Tom dies in an aircraft crash while performing a daredevil stunt. Al, a senior cadet captain, takes the blame for what happened and is discharged from the Corps, losing his chance to become a pilot. Jeff secretly continues to see Sally because she has threatened to destroy his reputation, claiming to be pregnant with his child. Al again steps in and marries Sally, partly because he loves her and partly to save Jeff's career. However, Carolyn finds out about Jeff's deceit and leaves him. He graduates from flight school some time after. After six months of marriage, Sally tells Al that she lied about being pregnant, and he tells her he knew all along. Upset and believing that he never loved her, Sally leaves Al. One day, when Jeff is about to go up in the air to participate in war game training, he meets Al, who has reapplied and qualified as crew chief on his B-17 bomber. When their old mentor, Captain Mercer (Brian Donlevy), finds out about Al, he starts working to get him reinstated as a pilot. Suddenly, Sally turns up, begging Al for help, claiming to be wanted for murder. Al gives her money to go to Los Angeles. Before she can leave the hangar, other flight officers enter the building. Sally hides inside the bomb bay of a bomber. She is still there when the aircraft takes off. When the games are completed, Mercer asks Jeff to test a new set of emergency flares. Al goes to fetch them and discovers Sally. As they argue, a flare is ignited by accident. Before they can drop it out the bomb bay, Mercer is badly burnt and falls out of the aircraft. Using a parachute, Al jumps after him and rescues him. Jeff manages to land the bomber in the dark desert to pick up his crew members. When he tries to take off again, he crashes and Sally dies in the crash. When Al appears at the witness stand in the court martial, he reveals the full story. Jeff is cleared of all charges and reunites with Carolyn. Al is reinstated as a bomber pilot in training. Mercer eventually fully recovers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Wanted Wings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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