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A touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies.
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.Read moreLess
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
The story
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Bette DavisBillie Dupree
Howard HessemanKoup Trenton
Suzy BarbieriJulie Ward
Marion RossNatalie Ward
Clu GulagerSteve Ward
Ben MarleyScott Billings
Lisa WhelchelLisa Ward
Irma P. HallMrs. Sinclair
Jessie Lee FultonSecretary
Bill ThurmanPilot #1
Rance HowardPilot #2Explore the crew
- Producer
- John A. Kuri
- Original Music Composer
- Lee Holdridge
- Director of Photography
- Robert C. Jessup
- Editor
- Robert James Kern
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Writer
- Nancy Sackett