A Yank in the RAF (1941)

Tim Baker: Well, I haven't looked at another girl since you left.
Carol Brown: Well, I've looked at other men.
Tim Baker: Maybe, but I'll bet you didn't look at them the same way you looked at me that first night in Kansas City. Remember?... You were going east, and I was going west; then we saw each other, and I was going east!

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The original screenplay for the film had the American fly-boy character, Tim Baker, played by Tyrone Power, die at the end of the movie during a German aircraft attack. According to notes from the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library, a 25 November 1940 conference stated "the serious objection to Ty Tyrone Power' would be that audiences would resent his dying at the finish, and not getting the girl." Moreover, according to the book 'The Films of World War II' by Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and John Griggs, the British military establishment requested that the studio allow the character to live because "apparently they didn't want to give American moviegoers the impression that Americans helping Britain would die." Notes from the Script Collection report a further conference on 31 January 1941 substantiates this by saying that Zanuck had had discussions, "unofficially with some British officials." The English officialdom had felt that the lead character should not die thereby not showing any more deaths than those that were absolutely essential to the movie's story. Further, a movie star-vehicle at that time with Tyrone Power was also unlikely to have him killed at the end which also may have affected the box-office This movie was made prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday 7 December 1941. The movie was first released at its world premiere on 26 September 1941, about 2½ months prior to the Pearl Harbor attack.
For this film, Britain's Air Ministry sent the Twentieth Century-Fox movie studio thousands of feet of film footage of the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) flying airplanes including action scenes of the R.A.F. in battle against German aircraft.
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