The Rocketeer

(1991)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 1,084 votes

Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Year: 1991

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джо Джонстон

Cast: Билли Кэмпбелл, Дженнифер Коннелли, Алан Аркин, Тимоти Далтон, Paul Sorvino, Терри О'Куинн, Эд Лотер, Джон Полито, Джеймс Хэнди, Tiny Ron

Plot

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

In 1938 Los Angeles, pilot Cliff Secord crashes his airplane after being struck in the air in a shootout between gangsters and FBI agents in a car chase. Completely broken, his best friend and mechanic A. "Peevy" Peabody attempts to repair a broken down biplane to raise some money in an exhibition show. However, Cliff finds a package hidden by one of the gangsters with a rocket with belts and they find that the device allows a man to fly. Meanwhile, his beloved girlfriend and aspiring actress Jenny Blake succeeds in an audition to make a small role in a movie of the great actor Neville Sinclair who is ranked third at the box-office. During a flight exhibition, the mechanic Malcolm Jones has an accident, and Cliff uses the rocket to save him, being called the Rocketeer by the public. With his picture in the front page of the newspaper, Cliff is chased by the FBI, the gangsters and Nazi agents that abduct Jenny and forces Cliff to rescue her.