The Rocketeer

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Buy The Rocketeer. The discovery of a top-secret jetpack hurls test pilot Cliff Secord into a daring adventure of mystery, suspense, and intrigue! Cliff encounters an assortment of ruthless villains, led by a Hollywood screen star who's a secret Nazi spy (Timothy Dalton). With the help of his actress girlfriend, the young pilot battles enormous odds to defeat his foes who are anxious to use the device in an evil plan to rule the world! The dangerous mission transforms the ordinary young man into an extraordinary hero!

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The Rocketeer Description

• ISBN13: 9786305428510
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Based on a retro-styled comic book hit of the '80s, this Disney film was meant to launch a whole line of Rocketeer films--but the series began and ended with this one. That's too bad, because this underrated Joe Johnston film has a certain loopy charm. The story centers on a pre-World War II stunt pilot (Bill Campbell) who accidentally comes into possession of a rocket-propelled backpack much coveted by the Nazis. With the aid of his mechanic pal (Alan Arkin), he gets it up and running, then uses it to foil a plot by a gang of vicious Nazi spies (is there any other kind?) led by Timothy Dalton. Jennifer Connelly is on hand as the love interest, but the real fun here is when the Rocketeer takes off. There's also a nifty battle atop an airborne blimp. --Marshall Fine





The Rocketeer Review


A wild ride in more ways than one, this little-known Disney live-action film was described by US Magazine as "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition) meets Top Gun," and while I haven't seen the latter, they may not be far off. The date is 1938--a year before the invasion of Poland set off World War II, three before the US entered the fighting--and near Hollywood a young pilot named Cliff Secord (Bill Campbell) is sharing a bungalow with mechanic and design whiz "Peevy" Peabody (Alan Arkin) while they prepare a small one-man airplane to enter the upcoming national competitions. Barely has the work been completed when, on her first official test flight, Cliff blunders into the midst of a running duel between the FBI and a pair of gangsters who've made off with an experimental jet-propulsion backpack created by Howard Hughes (Terry O'Quinn) and the plane is nearly totalled. But Cliff, through a twist of fate, gains possession of the pack and sees it as a way to gain enough money to "make a fresh start" and get into the Nationals after all. Peevy is dubious but comes up with improvements to the design, and Cliff becomes an instant hero when he rescues a flying clown at a local air show. What he doesn't know is that the people who stole the pack were simply soldiers for organized-crime figure and nightclub owner Eddie Valentine (Paul Sorvino), who in turn was in the pay of a Nazi agent, Neville Sinclair (Timothy Dalton), "the number-three box-office attraction in the country" and a hero of Cliff's girlfriend, aspiring film actress Jenny Blake (Jennifer Connelly). Or that Sinclair has discovered he has the pack--and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

Based on The Rocketeer: The Complete Collection and on a discredited suggestion that swashbuckling '30's actor Errol Flynn (Sinclair's obvious model) was a Nazi spy, this is a fast-moving film that's both fun and suspenseful, not to mention packed with action and with the real feel of late-1930's America. (There's a delightful bit of business when Valentine realizes he's being played for a sucker by a Nazi stooge and rejects Sinclair with the declaration that he's "a hundred per cent American," and viewers who know something about Hughes's career will pick up on a reference to his famous wooden aircraft the Spruce Goose.) Cliff isn't always very skilled at operating the pack (particularly on his maiden flight and when he nearly destroys Valentine's club in an effort to get Jenny away from Sinclair), but he's brave and resolute, just the kind of ordinary-guy-turned-hero we see in so many films and books. The climactic sequence features a thrilling confrontation aboard an airborne German zeppelin, and the effects, by George Lucas's ILM, are just as spectacular as you'd expect. The score, The Rocketeer: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by James Horner, is thunderous and varied with authentic '30's songs. If you enjoy the adventures of Indiana Jones, you'll probably like this one too; it's just too bad that the planned sequels never materialized. You can buy Cheap The Rocketeer online fast and easy, Shop Today!.

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