This is one of Spielberg’s favorite movies, and you’ve probably never seen it

A few months ago, with his latest feature film The Fabelmans set to hit theaters, Steven Spielberg took to the site’s microphone to announce his top 20 favorite movies. The two of you.

This list compiled by Spielberg, composed of great classics of cinema, such as Frank Capra’s “Life is Beautiful” (which is at the top) or Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather”, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho or David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia”, this list also includes a few. Nuggets are much less known to the general public.

This is the case of the film that ranks fourth: A Named Joe, directed by Victor Fleming in 1943.

This fantasy drama, hosted by Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunn and Van Johnson, follows the adventures of Pete Sandage, an American fighter pilot during World War II, nicknamed “Joe” by all the English children. Especially fearless and daring in the air, he saw an idyll on the conveyor with Dorinda Durston. Against and against the latter’s recommendations, he agrees to take part in the final mission off Scotland and is killed by a German aircraft carrier.

He then finds himself in a pilot’s paradise, where he is told that from now on he will have to serve as an invisible and spiritual guide to a young recruit named Ted Randall: an aspiring pilot who is getting dangerously close to Dorinda. .

If this film’s script (signed by Dalton Trumbo) may ring a bell, it’s because Spielberg adapted it 46 years later with Always. Directed by Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and Brad Johnson, the film is set not in wartime, but in modern times, among the “flying firemen” crossing the American forests.

At the top of the ranking published by Steven Spielberg The two of youThere is also Fantasia by Disney Studios (n°3), The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola (n°2) and Life is Beautiful by Frank Capra (n°1).

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