The Spirit of St. Louis
“One of the Great Adventures of Our Time!”
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Genres
Adventure, Drama, History
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Spirit of St. Louis performed
Budget
$7.0M
Worldwide Gross
$2.6M
Gross Profit
−$4.4M
Return
0.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$300K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~33/67, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Adventure) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Charles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh
James Stewart
Charles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh
Bud Gurney
Murray Hamilton
Bud Gurney
Mirror Girl
Patricia Smith
Mirror Girl
Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.
Bartlett Robinson
Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.
Father Hussman
Marc Connelly
Father Hussman
Donald Hall, Chief Engineer Ryan Airlines
Arthur Space
Donald Hall, Chief Engineer Ryan Airlines
O.W. Schultz, Salesman Atlas Suspender Co.
Charles Watts
O.W. Schultz, Salesman Atlas Suspender Co.
Burt (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
Burt (uncredited)
Mother from Oklahoma (uncredited)
Frances Allen
Mother from Oklahoma (uncredited)
Clerk (uncredited)
David Alpert
Clerk (uncredited)
Crowd Member in France (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
Crowd Member in France (uncredited)
Reporter (uncredited)
Gordon Barnes
Reporter (uncredited)
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