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condemns Hughes to a life of pain and turns the movie permanently dark. Scorsese brings us close enough to feel the fire singe Hughes’ mustache and eyebrows.
In these gathering shadows come Hughes’ purchase of TWA and his battles with Pan American’s bully tycoon Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin) and Trippe’s Maine Senator Owen Brewster (Alan Alda), in the famed Senate committee hearing showdown. This leads to one of “The Aviator’s” two scenes that rank among the greatest in a long time: Hughes “taking down” Maine Senator Ralph Owen Brewster at a congressional hearing on corruption in the awarding of World War II-era government contracts.
The other outstanding scene is the Beverly Hills plane crash that almost killed Hughes and probably exacerbated the dementia, germophobia and
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