The Spirit of St. Louis
“One of the Great Adventures of Our Time!”
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
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Cast
81 people
James Stewart
Charles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh
Known for
Rear Window
Vertigo
Murray Hamilton
Bud Gurney
Known for
Jaws
The Graduate
Patricia Smith
Mirror Girl
Known for
Save the Tiger
Bartlett Robinson
Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.
Known for
Sleeper
I Want to Live!
Marc Connelly
Father Hussman
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Tall Story
The Borgia Stick
Arthur Space
Donald Hall, Chief Engineer Ryan Airlines
Known for
20 Million Miles to Earth
Lassie
Charles Watts
O.W. Schultz, Salesman Atlas Suspender Co.
Known for
An Affair to Remember
Giant
Erville Alderson
Burt (uncredited)
Known for
The Scarlet Empress
The Bishop's Wife
Frances Allen
Mother from Oklahoma (uncredited)
David Alpert
Clerk (uncredited)
Also in
Death of a Salesman
The Star
Walter Bacon
Crowd Member in France (uncredited)
Known for
The Bigamist
Gordon Barnes
Reporter (uncredited)
Known for
The Hitch-Hiker
The Angry Red Planet
Billy Wilder Director · Wendell Mayes Screenplay Charles A. Lindbergh Author
Worldwide gross $2.6M · Budget $7M · United States release April 19, 1957
Box office
Budget
$7,000,000
Worldwide gross
$2,600,000
Gross vs. budget
0.4×
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
France · April 1, 1957
Theatrical
United States · April 19, 1957
Theatrical
Austria
August 16, 1957 · Theatrical
Germany
May 24, 1957 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
April 19, 1957 · Theatrical
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