Producer Charles Band discusses a few of his favorite films with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante. It cost a man’s life to get this out of Germany, To underline his point, Hughes shows Secord a film. Hughes wants his rocket back, stressing how potentially dangerous it is, especially if it fell into the wrong hands. Hughes, it turns out, is the inventor of an experimental rocket pack that Secord has happened upon and utilized in a series of exciting action sequences. stunt pilot-turned-makeshift-superhero Cliff Secord ( Billy Campbell) is in the office of Howard Hughes (a perfectly cast Terry O’Quinn). The scene, which takes place in 1938, unfolds right before the movie’s big, fiery climax at L.A.’s Griffith Observatory.
There’s a scene in “ The Rocketeer,” Disney’s big budget would-be blockbuster from the summer of 1991, that ranks among the most profoundly strange and transfixing moments in the studio’s storied history.
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