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Welles as Dreedle
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Orson Welles as General Dreedle in "Catch 22," the film version of Joseph Heller's classic anti-war story about Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desperately attempting to be certified insane so that he could stop flying.
1970
Paramount Pictures, Inc.
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1955
Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are cheek to cheek in this close-up publicity still for "To Catch a Thief" (Paramount 1955).
Aerial Combat Reenacted
1930
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1918
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"Sky Devils" Props
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Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy in "Desperate Journey"
1942
Actors Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy in a scene from the Warner Brothers' film "Desperate Journey."
