Memorial Day Movies

A flick starring Fred MacMurray and Errol Flynn, Dive Bomber ran yesterday and I watched it. I've seen it before and it's not great, but it's notable for some things. Mind you it was made in 1941, before Pearl Harbor.

• The color and photography are spectacular.
  
• It was filmed at North Island NAS and some of the buildings still exist.
  
• Fred & Errol go to a hotel called the Bristol, which was recently renovated and is still in downtown San Diego
  
• The planes they show are obsolete, even for 1941.
  
• Everyone smokes in the flick. Not that this is uncommon for the era, but it comes across as crazy product placement.
  

Read all of the user comments at the IMDB link above for more info. There's even some dicussion that Flynn was working as a spy for the Nazis and wanted this made at Pensacola....