The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Director: Billy Wilder

For our Film of the Week, we felt we had to look to the skies again, and so we’ve chosen a great combination, the director Billy Wilder, telling the story of Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris — the first man to accomplish it solo. Lindbergh wanted Anthony Perkins to play the role, possibly because Perkins was …