Lafayette Escadrille (film)

Lafayette Escadrille, also known as Cest la Guerre, Hell Bent for Glory UK and With You in My Arms, is a 1958 American war film produced by Warner Bros.. It stars Tab Hunter and Etchika Choureau and features David Janssen and Will Hutchins as well as Clint Eastwood in an early supporting role. It was the final film in the career of director William A. Wellman and is based on his original story.

While off duty, Walker meets and falls in love with Rene Beaulieu Etchika Choureau, a common streetwalker with some sensitivity she quits the oldest profession and takes a job, reforming for her American lovers sake. Walkers father beat him, and he resents any kind of authority. When a strutting, arrogant French officer Marcel Dalio, irritated by the young mans inability to understand commands in French, strikes him, he knocks the officer to the ground, a very serious offense. Before he can be jailed, his pals smuggle Walker out of camp. He then spends a great deal of time hiding in Paris in his sweethearts apartment. His friends continue with their training while Walker works for the Madam Veola Vonn, hoping to make enough money to run away to South America with his girlfriend.Later, the now veteran pilots he had befriended come to the bar and Walker realizes he still wants to redeem himself. Convincing an American general that he is sincere, when the United States enters the war, he joins the American Air Service. N Walker finally is able to fly a mission with the Lafayette Escadrille, where he proves to be a superb fighter pilot. Returning to Paris, Walker asks his friends to join him as he weds Rene. ........

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