Test Pilot (film)

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Test Pilot is a 1938 film that tells the story of a test pilot (Clark Gable) and his wife (Myrna Loy), who unsuccessfully try to keep their best friend (a chronically gum-chewing Spencer Tracy), another test pilot, from drinking. The movie also features Lionel Barrymore.

Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and Waldemar Young, and directed by Victor Fleming. Based on a story written by Frank Wead (a writer later portrayed by John Wayne in John Ford's The Wings of Eagles).

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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