Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 29, 2013
Price: DVD $30.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ABC TV show Pan Am was canceled after its first season, but it did have its fans and even garnered awards overseas.
The drama series is set in the early 1960s, when commercial flights are just beginning. Christina Ricci (Bel Ami) headlines the show as the spunky Maggie Ryan, a Pan Am stewardess with ambitions for more.
The television show also stars Margot Robbie (TV’s Neighbors) as a fledgling stewardess, Kelli Garner (Going the Distance) as a stewardess recruited by the CIA as a spy, Karine Vanasse (Midnight in Paris) as a French stewardess and Michael Mosley (TV’s Justified) and Mike Vogel (What’s Your Number?) as pilots trying to find women and build their careers.
Created by Jack Orman (Men of a Certain Age), Pan Am follows the flight crew members on their journeys overseas and as they witness history.
For special features, the DVD has five featurettes, all under the umbrella of “The Real Stewardesses of Pan Am:”
- “Becoming a Pan Am Stewardess”
- “The Berlin Set”
- “The Life of a Stewardess”
- “The Plane Set”
- and “Former Pan Am Stewardess & Executive Producer Nancy Ganis.”
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No question, Pan Am brings back the fell of an other era. Yet the story started decades before:
The first Pan Am Clippers were manufactured by Sikorsky, Martin, and Boeing in the 1930s. Although they were first-class luxury airliners, only 36 passengers would be able to bunk on the plane during its twelve-hour multiple island-hopping flight across the vast Pacific. Having a four-star dining room, an open lounge, and a world-class crew to attend to every need, passengers were provided with any desire.
From white-clad stewards, to blue-clad officers, the Pan American Clipper was the paragon of travel — elegant, extravagant, and secure — other than for the dozen planes that crashed, exploded, sank, burned, or were lost.
The story of the fifteen year history of the Pan Am Clippers, is taken from the memoirs of a 48-year career First Radio Officer. Surviving a class two hurricane on his second flight, he then carried munitions half-way around the world in the first days of WWII, lived through the dangers of Nazi spys, radio stations in Africa, and survived near-death aircraft wrecks. Paul Rafford Jr. tells a remarkable story.
Taken from, Legends of the Flying Clippers
Douglas Westfall – Historic Publisher – SpecialBooks.com
Thanks for the info, Douglas. I’m sure your book is very interesting.
Sam: Thanks — During the Golden Age of Aviation, nothing held the imagination more captive than a Pan Am Clipper. It was the paragon of travel — elegant, extravagant, and secure. Course at $11,000 in today’s dollars might seem extreme to travel from San Francisco to Hong Kong.
Best Always, Douglas