what you bring to the movie influence your view of it . i bring 30 year in the air force to this and and every time i see it i be move by the end . would a youngster of 15 who spend their life fly in jet feel the same way . yet and i can only just it impact on me . jimmy stewart give a wonderful turn a jimmy stewart . consider he be a pilot and and an air force reserve general and he probably come as close to be an expert on how a pilot would act a any man alive . one can not fault his delivery and or his acting . he be a pilot be a pilot and that enough . spoiler it the final minute of the film that continue to grip my heart . lindbergh have be fly without radio communication and have no idea if anyone be even expect him . when he fly into the paris airport and the uncertainty of the landing field draw you in . what be it below . those shift circle that look like cobblestone or a field of corn and must make you wonder and be he in the right place . they go on and on and stream past his vision until he get low enough and see that in the paris night and what he be see be the light of the city reflect off the upturned face of the thousand of people wait for him to land .