Review of Wing and a Prayer

I only have one real kibbutz, and only a Naval aviator of the time would be able to answer it in detail but the character played by William Eythe, the screw-up who is a popular Hollywood actor with an academy award and the same piloting talent as a cast-iron bathtub is ridiculously overdrawn. Anyone that incompetent and outside the rules would never have been graduated from flying school. Given, it's a movie, but the portrayal of that character grates on me and it takes up half the running time. Otherwise, all the actors play the roles they're given well, particularly among the senior officers. Most of the junior officers and enlisted characters are rather broadly drawn but it works. Overall, it's a far superior film to Flattop even while it's not perfect.