How have I never even HEARD of The Rocketeer?! First time watching reaction & review 

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I love how Neville says, ”I’ll miss Hollywood.” Then promptly flies into the Hollywoodland sign….effectively missing the word Hollywood. 🤣

In the comics, Jenny's name was Betty, and she was based on iconic pin-up queen Bettie Page. Disney changed her name and modified her character slightly to avoid any potential legal trouble. Late in her life, Dave Stevens, the creator of the Rocketeer, and a big fan of hers when he was a young man, befriended the real Bettie, and helped her get some compensation from many of the people who had profited off of her image throughout the years.

Fun fact: Neville Sinclair is loosely based on famous swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn who was wrongly accused to be a Nazi spy. Also, the scene with Eddie Valentine turning on Neville when he finds he's a nazi spy is a reflection of gangsters during that era who weren't too thrilled with fascism. In fact, during that time, they were the police force's biggest allies when it came to rooting out Nazi supporters as Mussolini persecuted the Sicilian Families back in the old country.

I love the setups and payoffs in the script. When Dalton says "I'll miss Hollywood" he does exactly that when he crashes into the Land section of the Hollywood sign.

Interesting fact. When they first put the sign up in 1923, it was Hollywoodland. It was an advertisement for a new housing development called , of course, Hollywoodland.

The monster-looking character was inspired from a real Hollywood actor from the 30's & 40's named Rondo Hatton who suffered from acromegaly. His last film in 1946 was called "The Brute Man" in which he played the title role. There is a book about his life called, "Rondo Hatton: Beauty Within the Brute". If you haven't seen it, another great movie with Alan Arkin is "Little Miss Sunshine". He won an Oscar for his performance.

Howard Hughes was a real-life inventor/pilot/businessman who dated a ton of movie stars, and was a huge inspiration for both Howard and Tony Stark.

Ah yes, Jennifer Connelly, you can tell how old a man is by what movie he fell in love with her in.

Jennifer just knocking people out with objects is funny as fuck💀😂😂

My favorite part of James Horner's score is the agonizing anticipation of Cliff taking off in the Gee Bee plane. When the wheels finally leave the ground, Horner makes us feel the triumph and magic of flight.

I love this movie!! I saw it 7 times in the theater. Joe Johnson directed this movie. Marvel loved it too and wanted Captain America The First Avenger to have the same flavor so they hired Joe Johnson to make it. It also has one of the best soundtracks of all time.

Did you know? The guy whom directed this movie also directed Captain America The First Avenger.

Timothy Dalton played James Bond twice, before this movie was released.

The tall, scary looking villain Lothar was based on the journalist and actor Rondo Hatton, who was cast as a heavy in classic movies because of his unique facial features (which were due to him having acromegaly). The actor in this movie, however, was in prosthetics.

For another one where Jennifer Connolly looks iconic, check out Dark City from 98. Its a much darker theme, and so worth the watch.

I love how she laughs at her own jokes, fun fact the actor who played Neville Sinclair said that the Rocketeer was one of his favorite roles to play

Timothy Dalton's Neville Sinclair is based on Errol Flynn, who was once accused of being a Nazi sympathizer. The Neville Sinclair movies mentioned are based on Errol Flynn movies - Wings of Honor is Dawn Patrol, The Laughing Bandit is Robin Hood.

Jennifer Connelly at her most lovely. Good movie. Underrated.

Jenny (Jennifer Connelly) is married to Paul Bettany (Vision in the MCU), and she voices Spider-Man’s AI for his suit in the Tom Holland films.

Trivia: The Bulldog Cafe, Cliff's favorite hangout, was an actual place in 1930s-era Los Angeles. It was little more than a food stand, but Dave Stevens, creator of the Rocketeer, put it in the original graphic novel. It was bulldozed sometime in the 60s.

I’m so glad you’re watching this!! The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky, Hidalgo with Viggo Mortensen, and CA: The First Avenger are all underrated films and proof that Joe Johnston should have had a more prolific career.

Dave Steven is the writer and artist of the comic book that this is based off. He died at the young age of 53, but he did have a cameo in the movie. He was the German pilot that was testing the Rocketeer Rocket in the film and died when it blew up and he went up in flames. Jeniffer Connelly and Billy Campbell were engaged a little after the film but broke it off after about 5 years.

“Hollywoodland” was a real estate company or area back in the old days. The sign was falling apart when some history lovers decided to make it a tourist thing & preserved the “Hollywood” part that you still see today.

Great matiné movie. Dalton is a classically schooled Shakespeare actor. It's a pity this didn't do better at the box office because I would have loved to see a sequel.

BTW, the big farmer standing next to the farmer that says "big gopher" is Lothar without the monster makeup. Lothar's face was based on a real person, an actor from the same time frame at the movie's setting named Rondo Hatton, who suffered from Acromegaly.

5:28 That’s Timothy Dalton, also known as James Bond. If you want to see Jennifer Connelly even younger, she’s a teen girl in Labyrinth. A childhood classic for a lot of ‘80s kids. 31:20 Fun fact... Eddie, the heavyset guy that just switched sides, has an amazing singing voice. Do some searches for Paul Sorvino singing. 42:00 Mandy Patinkin played Inigo Montoya.

I love the pulp revival of the 80's and 90's from Indiana Jones all the way to The Mummy. So many gems. For more Timothy Dalton, I suggest Hot Fuzz, Flash Gordon and his two Bond films (Living Daylights and License to Kill). And of course, everyone loves how gorgeous Jennifer Connelly is in her old Hollywood glam 😍. Just watch all of her movies. She's fantastic.

I saw this movie on TV when I was 10 and Jennifer Connelly single handedly (no pun intended) jump started my puberty.

The Rocketeer director also directed Captain America: The First Avenger. And yes, the HOLLYWOOD sign originally read HOLLYWOODLAND. True story.

Wait until you see the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension!

Another underrated hero movie you should check out is _The Phantom_ starring Billy Zane.

Not only did fire extinguishers exist in 1938, they had a hand-grenade version.

Alan Arkin, the actor who plays Peevy, is a comedy LEGEND. I don't think he has ever played a character that didn't make me laugh out loud lol. One of his earliest big roles is in Catch-22, based on the novel. It's a brilliant dark comedy (and so is the original novel, which I recommend if you're looking for a good book).

I just love the fact that Howard Hughes was played by "John Locke".

For a younger Jennifer Connelly (and David Bowie), check out Labyrinth.

Speaking of Billy Zane, this was one several comic book films of the early 90's that was based around some pulp era heroes. Billy Zane is in one called The Phantom, and there's another good one called The Shadow. At the time Dark Horse comics was trying to put together an Avengers style team with those heroes, the Rocketeer, The Green Hornet, and Zorro before they tragically went bankrupt and sold off most of those assets. As a result, the Green Hornet 90's film never happened because of legal disputes, and the Zorro film wasn't made until years later as a separate project starring a younger Antonio Banderas. All of the above are fun adventure films though.

The late great James Horner composed in my opinion, the best score on the joy of aviation ever. Which is sadly ironic as he died flying his plane as he was an avid pilot. Every time I hear his song “Rocketeer to the Rescue”, I think about the strapping on wings and flying.

"Nothing to it, Howard. Just basic aviation." Daaaamn Howard got burned :D

One of my favorite movies ever. Total tragedy that it got buried when there was a major shakeup of upper management in Disney (the new regime totally buried it to keep the previous regime from getting credit for a hit). SO great, and the music... THE MUSIC. ❤❤❤

The theme from The Rocketeer was used in the trailer for Last Action Hero.

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid, along with the Back to the Future Trilogy.

When I was a little lad, my local cinema (The Wycliffe - if there's anyone from Moss Side, Manchester) had the black & white serial 'King Of The Rocketmen' was on every Saturday before the main feature. Alternated with the B&W versions of Batman and Flash Gordon. This movie was almost as good as those 15 minute serialisations.

in the comic this was based on, Jenny was actually named "Betty" and she was a nude model (a reference to actual pinup girl Bettie Page). Obviously that wouldn't fly for a Disney movie though....

The best love letter to 50s pulp and aerospace ever. I love that Howard Hughes created the rocket pack. Crazy as he was, he was a great influence on flight in California.

This movie was on my childhood playlist. Brings back a lot of good memories and is definitely a mostly-forgotten gem.

Please watch "Short Circuit" (1986)!

Speaking of Billy Zane, consider watching another classic comic strip movie The Phantom which also stars a young Catherine Zeta-Jones.

36:11 Yes, that sign did orignally read "HOLLYWOODLAND" when it was originally constructed in 1923 to advertise a nearby housing development with the same name. During its first major restoration in 1949, the "LAND" part was removed so that the sign reflected the name of the entire area rather than just that housing development.

Thank you so much for reacting to this movie! I saw this in theaters as a kid and it's one of my absolute favorites. It's the perfect blend of adventure, humor, and the stylish 1930's Hollywood glamour. I do have to fast forward the scene where Cliff is at Neville and Jenny's table serving them soup and playing with the flowers though. It just makes me too uncomfortable.

Probably for the same reasons you may not have heard of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" or "Iron Skies"

Fun facts: Jennifer Connelly's character was originally inspired by real life pin up Betty Page. The model that Cliff uses to glide on and escape capture is a scale model of the Spruce Goose; the largest airplane Hughes created and flew. The comics this movie was based on were, themselves, a love letter to the old Rocket man serials of the 1930s. IMO Timothy Dalton was an underrated James Bond. Oh... And the injured mobster in the hospital played Rom in ST DS9.

This was James Horner's first superhero movie he has done. And his second was The Amazing SPIDER MAN. He sadly passed away in a plane crash in 2014 at 62. If he were alive right now, he would have composed music for all the Marvel movies.

Especially fun to see the brilliant Alan Arkin such a fun role

he ( the lead, Billy Campbell ) later starred in " Cardinal " ( 2016 - 2020) , a Crime Drama Mystery TV series filmed in Filmed in Sudbury, North Bay and Whitefish First Nation, Ontario.

I can see how this film was a wonderful warm up for director Joe Johnston's most famous credit, Captain America: The First Avenger.

I love the soundtrack for this film too.

The novel "The Princess Bride" was published in 1973. The writer, William Goldman, was a highly accomplished screenwriter, with such classic films as "Marathon Man" starring Dustin Hoffman and "All The President's Men" (a drama about the Watergate scandal, again with Dustin Hoffman alongside Robert Redford) under his belt. The novel is an amazing read, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It grips you every time, no matter how often you've read it, even though you know the plot twists by then.

Yeah the Hollywood sign used to say "Hollywoodland." In reality though it just wasn't maintained for several decades and much of it fell apart. They started restoring it in the late 70s and just never put back up the "land" part.

Don't know how many times I saw this as a kid. So glad you got to watch it!

Your "I'm no pilot but you shouldn't have your windows open when you're that high up" made me laugh. No need to worry. Zepplins usually flew at about 1000 feet. 😀

Historical fact: The white plane Cliff escaped on was a scale model of a real plane H.H. built called the "Spruce Goose" because of the fact that Spruce Wood was used in its construction as a possible alternative for plane construction during WWII. It was flone only once and is currently on display in Oregon at an aviation museum.

I absolutely love this movie! I see that a lot of commenters have mentioned Timothy Dalton's performance in Flash Gordon, which I highly recommend -- it's a supporting role, but a really fun movie, and I thought at the time (and still think) that Dalton's performance was patterned after Errol Flynn, just not as explicitly so as in The Rocketeer. If you're interested, you can also see him in a 1985 arthouse picture called The Doctor and the Devils, based on the Dylan Thomas play about the Burke and Hare case (with all of the names changed to protect the guilty) -- about two enterprising early Victorian grave robbers who realized that the most efficient way to procure really fresh cadavers to supply to the doctor (played by Dalton) is to make their own, and who murdered several people before they were caught. The case put an end to laws that radically restricted the sources from which doctors could obtain corpses for medical study, and thus also put an end to grave robbing. By the way, I didn't see any other comments mention it, but Bill Campbell also had a significant role, one year after The Rocketeer, in Francis Ford Coppola's movie entitled Bram Stoker's Dracula.

In the Rocketeer comic book that this movie came from, the Jennifer Connelly character was drawn with the likeness of the great Bettie Page and had some risque comic book panels. Worth a read!

The costume and helmet were inspired by "Commander Cody", a jet pack wearing hero from the 1950's movie serials. I once wished they had made a "Rocketeer II", but perhaps that's best left in the imagination...

Back in the 30's the "Hollywood" sign did in fact say "Hollywoodland"... pretty sure this isn't what happened to it though. Lol. You'll notice Sinclare's last line was. "I'll miss Hollywood"... and he did.

Dick Tracy (1990) is one of those comic book come to life kind of movies. It was Disney’s attempt to capture the success Warner Bros. was having with Tim Burton’s Batman. It stars Warren Beatty not only stars but is the producer and director. It boast an extraordinary cast including Al Pacino (in his Oscar nominated performance), Madonna, Dick Van Dyke, James Caan, Dustin Hoffman. It has such beautiful production design and cinematography. It also features some special effects make-up that today would be done with performance capture technology much like The Adventures of Tintin. You need to react to Dick Tracy.

Josh from The CCC Podcast here! So super happy you watched 'The Rocketeer'! One of my favorite films and also, the comic book its based on (written and drawn by the late Dave Stevens) is amazing too! Up up and away into adventure!

Timothy Dalton played James Bond in a couple of movies. And the actor that played Lothar is a former basketball player with a very distinctive chin. He didn't need too much prosthetics to make that face work. The Hollywood sign was an advertisement for HollywoodLand, a neighborhood proposed for the hilltop. "Land" was dropped, but the city kept the rest of the sign in place.

Yes, the sign used to say Hollywoodland. Originally Hollywoodland was a housing development in the Hollywood hills.The sign was built in 1923 to advertise the housing development. Eventually they sold all of the houses and they just left the sign up. It was only supposed to stay up for 18 months. By 1949 the sign had become iconic and the land that the sign was on was donated to the city of Los Angeles. The LA and Hollywood chambers of commerce decided to get rid of the "land" part of the sign. The original sign deteriorated over the years and it has been rebuilt several times. I believe it was in the late 1970s that the sign was protected and rebuilt in a much more permanent form.

"How have I never heard of Rocketeer?" Well, I guess the same way you hadn't got the idea that Henry Cavill played Superman XD

Dave Stevens, the artist, and creator of The Rocketeer is seen in the B&W Nazi film as the test pilot, handsome boy, left us much too early, Betty is modeled after the famous 50s pin-up gal Bettie Page, The BIG "Heavy" villain muscle is based on Rondo Hatton, a real man who was in and even stared in movies. He had a condition that made him look the way he did. Most everyone in the movie is a near-perfect match for the characters from the comic

7:32 Speaking of "scoundrels"... I highly recommend Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988).

Actually this movie (and the comics) takes place in 1938 right before World War II started. Also the director (Joe Johnstone) is the same director behind Captain America (2011).

Mary: who does he think he is, Inigo Mintoya? Me: spit take my Pepsi all over the wall. And then she does Elton John when Rocketman is mentioned! Epic Mary! That was awesome. That is the first thing that popped into my head too. Love your channel, Mary! So happy you did this movie. One of my all time favorites.

The Rocketeer is a good movie that doesn't pretend to be anything more than it is, an entertaining story. I love the music written by the late James Horner.

Jennifer Connelly is exquisite in this movie. This is a favorite movie of mine. I really wish they had made a sequel. I had read online Disney+ is doing a series though.

The Hollywood sign used to say “Hollywoodland”. The “land” part was taken off I believe in the late 40s. Hollywoodland was a real estate venture that was for sale in the 20s/30s and the sign was for advertising it. It became a cultural part of the entertainment industry over the years.

Bill Campbell (Rocketeer) was also in the movie Enough staring Jennifer Lopez.

FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER Mary. Dr. Frankenstein is the guy who reanimated a dead body (aka The Monster)! Driving me nuts woman! (And the Mary that wrote it! 😂)

17:48 Acromegaly. The character in this film is a tip of the hat to Rando Hatton.

The Hollywood sign was changed in 1949. Up until then it was called Hollywoodland

First film I ever saw Jennifer Connally in. Man, she was stunning! 😍

This movie was a big deal to me as it was the first movie that namedropped my hometown of Redlands. It was the closest thing to feeling Hollywood, even growing up in Southern California.

The villain is played by Timothy Dalton. He played James Bond in License to Kill and Living Daylights.

The guy who directed this went on to direct the first Captain America movie because both had a similar WWII retro aesthetic

The giant airship is the Hindenburg, an advanced-design zeppelin - used hydrogen as the lift gas, which is highly flammable

In the first draft of the first episode of What If, the Rocketeer joined Peggy and Rogers.

Check out “The Shadow” with Alec Baldwin.

Adam Savage (from Mythbusters) posted a video about the jetpack from this film (the stunt prop) at the same time you posted your video. Hell of a coincidence.

SO GLAD YOU WATCHED THIS!!! It was one my childhood favorites and I dream of making a fan film of it!

No way! I was just thinking about this movie a lot yesterday! And about how handsome Billy Campbell was along with those relationship goals between Cliff and Jenny.

He put two and two together…and got five. Five knuckles across the face…

A mix of Billy Zane and Brendan Fraser - I've never heard a more apt comparison, that's exactly who he is hahaha . Director of Captain America: The First Avenger did this movie.

I loved this movie growing up. Of course had a crush on Jennifer Connelly. Howard Hughes was famous in the aviation world. He made a big plane called the Spruce Goose. He built it out of wood and it was supposed to be used for the war to help transport stuff over seas but he didn’t get it completed in time. That is interesting to read about. The big guy that folded people in half was played by Tiny Ron Taylor and they used some prosthetics to accentuate his features. He was in Ace Ventura Pet Detective, some Star Trek tv shows, Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze and the first Naked Gun movie. The flying balloon at the park end was a Zeppelin similar to the Hindenburg air ship that used hydrogen fuel to fill the balloon.

The hollywood sign was originally an advertisement for a housing development called Hollywoodland. The Land part was taken off in the early 50s (I think).

Another cool choice in the 30's pulp style hero movie is The Shadow...one of my favs lol

5 years before this Jennifer Connelly was in "Labyrinth" with David Bowie. In 1998 she was in "Dark City" with Kiefer Sutherland and in 2003 the first "Hulk" movie since Bill Bixby.

Me and my brother and sister went to go see it when it first came out in theaters back in 1991. It was amazing. That Nazi actor was Timothy Dalton- he played a 007 several times as well as many other movies

"Why are they running that way?" The Prometheus school of running away from things. *Ding*.