this movie despite it shortcoming get me start research the life of fred noonan nearly ten year ago . rutger hauer look nothing like fred who be tall and thin yet the movie although stereotype be fairly accurate . it be true that fred do indeed have a drinking problem for which he be fire but evidence show that much of this be due to the immense strain he be under rather than a wilful character defect . it could be say that he be the world first commercial aerial navigator . he be nothing short of brilliant . he be show a a likable character and this be so in real life . the video cover could have do without the image of him in a grimy shirt and cigarette in mouth and poring over a chart with a bottle of booze . untrue . he be sartorial dresser who worry about the cleanliness of his clothes and the cigarette ash would have burn a hole in his precious chart . one scene show him lay back in the plane read a magazine . for year i think no way . until recently i find out that he be repute to have do just that in the clipper plane which he navigate on their pioneering flight across the pacific . only it be thriller rather than holiday brochure . this movie be well worth see . it not brilliant art but be more factual than much of the stuff that be write about and discuss in earhart circle . for those into the disappearance and elgen long book and be in my opinion the best and most informative . but there be also considerable evidence for the theory that they may have be capture by the japanese . in addition it not impossible that they might have perish on niku . jackie ferrari .