Flight Lieutenant (1942) Glenn Ford, Par OBrien, Evelyn Keyes

Sam Doyle (Pat O Brien) is a military pilot whose drunken recklessness gets his copilot killed in a crash. Disgraced, Sam flees the country and takes a job working for a small airline in South America. Years later, Sam s nowadult son, Danny (Glenn Ford), becomes a test pilot for the Army Air Corps just before World War II. He s also fallen for Susie Thompson (Evelyn Keyes), the niece of the man his father killed. Sam returns to redeem himself in his son s eyes.