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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Dave Stevens (graphic novel "The Rocketeer")
Danny Bilson (story) ...
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Release Date:
21 June 1991 (USA) more
Plot:
A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high flying masked hero. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(26 articles)
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wonderful, old-fashioned movie more (97 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bill Campbell | ... | Cliff |
 | Jennifer Connelly | ... | Jenny |
 | Alan Arkin | ... | Peevy |
 | Timothy Dalton | ... | Neville Sinclair |
 | Paul Sorvino | ... | Eddie Valentine |
 | Terry O'Quinn | ... | Howard Hughes |
 | Ed Lauter | ... | Fitch |
| James Handy | ... | Wooly |
| Robert Miranda | ... | Spanish Johnny (as Robert Guy Miranda) |
| John Lavachielli | ... | Rusty |
 | Jon Polito | ... | Bigelow |
| Eddie Jones | ... | Malcolm |
 | William Sanderson | ... | Skeets |
 | Don Pugsley | ... | Goose |
| Nada Despotovich | ... | Irma |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Rocketeer (UK)
The Adventures of the Rocketeer (Australia)
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Runtime:
108 min
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Colour:
Colour (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby SR (35 mm prints) (as Dolby Stereo)
Certification:
Iceland:10 (original rating) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Finland:K-12/9 | France:U | Germany:12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG
Filming Locations:
Ennis-Brown House - 2655 Glendower Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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Trivia:
In the original graphic novel, Cliff Secord's girlfriend is called Betty Page, not Jenny Blake. Dave Stevens (the creator of the comic novel) based the character "Betty Page" upon his real-life friend, 50's pin-up girl Bettie Page. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After the Beegee is hit by the fleeing thieves, the long shot shows oil splattered on the windscreen. Then a close up shot shows the windscreen clean before it is sprayed with oil, then it switches back to the long shot with oil on the windscreen again. more
Quotes:
Cliff Secord:
[fighting Neville Sinclair] Where's your stuntman now, Sinclair?
Neville:
I do my own stunts.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Miss March/Race to Witch Mountain/Sunshine Cleaning (#1.3)" (2009) more
Soundtrack:
WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE more
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I've always surprised when people don't like this movie. It was one of my favorites at the time, and it has aged very well. It's a real "retro 30's" picture, like "The Shadow", instead of being a modern reinterpretation of such movies like the Indiana Jones films (which I also like very much).
The reviews cover the plot enough, and there are no real surprises here, but it's great family fun. My kids really love this movie, and I end up watching it every year or two, and I have never tired of it. When it came out there were apparently sequels planned, but it got killed at the box office by T2, which ran over everything that summer, so Disney never did anything with the show. They have recycled the atmosphere and the music in the "Soaring over California" ride at DCA, and I have to say it always makes me wistful that the movie never got a sequel.
By the way, the movie doesn't follow the comics that closely, which I don't mind, but if you are a purist and a fan of the "graphic novels", you might keep that in mind.