LaFayette Escadrille

Lafayette Escadrille American war film released in March of 1958 by Warner Brothers Pictures, starring Tab Hunter, David Janssen, and Will Hutchins, and featuring Clint Eastwood in an early supporting role. It was the final film in the career of director William A. Wellman. The film is about a spoiled, rich kid (Tab Hunter) from Boston, who had gotten in serious trouble with the law, and fled to France, where he volunteers to join the Lafayette Escadrille and flies for France in the First World War. While off duty, the young man meets and falls in love with Renee (Etchika Choureau), a common streetwalker with some sensitivity; she quits the oldest profession and takes a job, reforming for her American lover's sake. As he is a...