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'The Winds of Kitty Hawk' is a 1978 American made-for-television biographical film directed by E. W. Swackhamer about the Wright brothers and their invention of the first successful powered heavier-than-air flying machine, the 'Wright Flyer'.[http://www.kinotv.com/page/film.php?filmcode=8680&q=0&l=en 'The Winds of Kitty Hawk'; kinotv.com] It's a tribute to the brothers and was broadcast on December 17, 1978, the 75th anniversary of their famous 1903 first aeroplane flight. It is one of several made-for-television films about historical people in aviation produced in the 1970s, including 'The Amazing Howard Hughes', 'Amelia Earhart', and 'The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case'.

The film presents the brothers' lives in dramatic vignettes sometimes historically rearranged. The film makes a claimer at the beginning stating that dramatic license had been taken but for the most part their story is told chronologically.

In 2012, the film became available on DVD from MGM Limited Edition.[http://www.oldies.com/product-view/3532ED.html 'The Winds of Kitty Hawk' DVD release May 2012; Oldies.com]

Cast



*Michael Moriarty as Wilbur Wright

*David Huffman as Orville Wright

*Tom Bower as William Tate

*Robin Gammell as H.A. Toulmin

*Scott Hylands as Glenn Curtiss

*John Randolph as Alexander Graham Bell

*Kathryn Walker as Katharine Wright

*Eugene Roche as Bishop Milton Wright

*John Hoyt - Professor Samuel Langley

*Joseph Bernard - Mayor of New York, George B. McClellan Jr.

*Lew Brown - Harlan Mumford (banker)

*Carole Tru Foster - Agnes Osborne

*Dabbs Greer - Ace Hutchin

*Mo Malone - Elizabeth Mayfield

*Robert Casper - Man

*Tom Lawrence - Doctor

*Ross Durfee - William Howard Taft

*Charles Macaulay - 2nd Genteral

*Frank Farmer - Mr. Newell

*Steffen Zacharias - Fisherman

*Laurence Haddon - 1st General

*Ari Zeltzer - Tom Tate

*Vaughn Armstrong - Reporter

*Marie Todd -

*Gerald Berns - Reporter

See also



*'Wright Flyer'

*'The Wright Brothers' (1971 film)

References




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