Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight

Amelia Earhart The Final Flight also known as Amelia Earhart is a 1994 television film starring Diane Keaton, Rutger Hauer and Bruce Dern. It is based on Doris L. Richs Amelia Earhart A Biography. The film depicts events in the life of Amelia Earhart, focusing on her final flight and disappearance in 1937, with her exploits in aviation and her marriage to publisher G.P. Putnam being revealed in flashbacks. This film was not the first television dramatization of Earharts life, as Amelia Earhart appeared in 1976, starring Susan Clark as Earhart and John Forsythe as her husband George Putnam.

Principal photography began on October 18, 1993 with studio work as well as location shooting in both California and Quebec. Although a Beech D18 was used, it was an adequate substitute for Earharts famed Lockheed ModelElectra used in the circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937. Wellknown race pilot Steve Hinton, president of the Planes of Fame Air Museum and owner of Fighter Rebuilders, flew for the film.Interest in the story of Amelia Earhart, especially with the release of Amelia in 2009, led film reviewers to recall the earlier Earhart portrayals. Rosalind Russell had played an Earhartesque flier in 1943s Flight for Freedom and Susan Clark starred in the 1976 miniseries, Amelia Earhart. ........

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