| Flying Tigers | |
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| Directed by | David Miller |
| Written by | Kenneth Gamet Barry Trivers |
| Produced by | Edmund Grainger |
| Starring | John Wayne John Carroll Anna Lee |
| Cinematography | Jack A. Marta |
| Edited by | Ernest J. Nims |
| Music by | Victor Young |
Production company | Republic Pictures |
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Cantonese |
| Budget | $900,000[1] |
| Box office | $1.5 million (US rentals)[2] |
Flying Tigers (a.k.a. Yank Over Singapore and Yanks Over the Burma Road) is a 1942 American black-and-white war film drama from Republic Pictures that was produced by Edmund Grainger, directed by David Miller, and stars John Wayne, John Carroll, and Anna Lee.
Flying Tigers dramatizes the exploits of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), Americans who fought the Japanese in China during World War II. The movie portrays them as fighting before U.S. entry into the war but, in point of fact, they did not see action until after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is unabashedly a wartime propaganda film that was well received by a 1940s audience looking for a patriotic "flagwaver".[3]
- ^ "Yates Call Pep Meeting". Variety. 8 April 1942. p. 5.
- ^ "101 Pix Gross in Millions." Variety, January 6, 1943, p. 58.
- ^ Orriss 1984, p. 59.