n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Air force pilot Dennis Morgan desperately wants to get off the ground, and finds that even the most supposedly dull mission can turn into something dangerously exciting. Whether it's God in the copilot's seat with him or chaplain Alan Hale (Sr.), you know that when the mission he's praying for does strike, God will be with him, the point of many a bit of a war drama. Leading them with determination to complete their mission is veteran actor Philip Ahn as the Tokyo radio announcer harassing them in order to break their spirit."OK you Yankee Doodle Dandy's, come and get us!", one Japanese pilot (Richard Loo) roars, sounding a bit like Cagney as he refers to the flying tigers as gangsters. It's a clichéd premise of World War II that fills the script, perhaps not as subtle as some of the genuine war classics, but I can't imagine this giving thrills to the home-front and a few unintended laughs to post war audiences. Seeing this several times over the years, I forgot that this was the film that often documented line came from in dramatizing the war years.So in spite of the clichés and obvious late war propaganda, this was a guaranteed crowd pleaser of its time, showing the Japanese as crafty but determined and equal as patriotic as the Americans, only less villainized than the Germans but equal as a foe. It has the Warner Brothers know how of technical excellence and a fine supporting cast including Andrea King as Morgan's wife, Raymond Massey as the commander and Dane Clark as one of the most determined of pilots. Little time is wasted for frivolity, making this direct and determined by its own mission. For a record of the war we hoped would end all wars, what else would you want?

Robert Florey directed this biographical account of Col. Robert Lee Scott(played by Dennis Morgan), a pilot during WWII who is flying transport planes over China, but really wants to soar with the Flying Tigers, an elite aerial squadron fighting the Japanese. Major General Chennault(played by Raymond Massey) gives him his chance, even though at 34 he is a bit old. Col. Scott distinguishes himself by successfully shooting down the enemy, including hated turncoat pilot called 'Tokyo Joe', who loved to taunt his former countrymen. Good model F/X and flying sequences compensate for clichéd script; one of the last patriotic morale boosters before the war ended.

DENNIS MORGAN is one of those actors under contract to Warner Bros. who seldom got a chance to do anything but lightweight roles and occasionally given a fairly good musical such as the Technicolored MY WILD IRISH ROSE where he played Chauncey Olcott, songwriter.But GOD IS MY CO-PILOT is a rarity in that he gets to fill most of the screen's running time as Col. Robert Lee Scott, one of the first Americans to join the "Flying Tigers" just before World War II. Scott went on to a distinctive wartime record and only recently died at a ripe old age, a hero of his hometown of Macon, Georgia.The film is a typical Warner war film--cast with all of their most dependable stock company players--including RAYMOND MASSEY, ALAN HALE, CRAIG STEVENS, newcomer MARK STEVENS, ANDREA KING, DANE CLARK, JOHN RIDGELY and DONALD COOK. But as a film, it falls strictly into the Saturday afternoon adventure mold for kiddies, only occasionally rising to the occasion of being a good biography of the wartime hero.Despite the rather plum role, Morgan is still a lightweight, leaving the heavier histrionics to Raymond Massey and Alan Hale--but his fans loved him in this, regardless. It's probably the film he's most remembered for during the '40s.And incidentally, there was no political correctness going on in the '40s as far as America and the Japanese were concerned, for those taking affront at the slurs against "the Japs". That's the way they were regarded then. Even having dishes that bore "Made in Japan" on them, was enough for an American to consider throwing them out. That's how it was--deal with it.

Here in Atlanta we mourn the death Monday, February 27th of General Robert L. Scott, ace and author of the book from which this classic movie was made. Scott owed $25,00 in back taxes after publishing his (most successful) book in the Summer of 1943 - during the height of WW II. His publisher advanced the tax money to him and gave him another assignment. The result: "Damned to Glory". Other books include "Runway to the Sun", Look of the Eagle", Tiger in the Sky and another classic IMHO: "Chennault of China". They don't make 'em - men and movies - like this any more. Scott to his last days was a fixture at the renowned Museum of Avation in Warner Robins, GA. He was always very helpful and full of stories with which to inform and regale the museum patrons. He will be sorely missed. Get the movie and the book and savor them like old wine.