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About your gradfather
Is he Master Technical Sergeant William L. Durkin? That's the guy who pulled him out of the XF-11 crash.

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Yeah, I just saw "The Aviator" a few hours ago and really liked it. When he crashed the prototype plane, it showed someone run towards him and help him up. That may have been your grandfather.

I don't know if you know alreadybut "The Aviator (2004)" is ALL about Howard Hughes' life, and it's an outstanding movie. Check it out.
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The Amazing Howard Hughes, a TV movie made in 1977. It was quite good and a preview of better things to come for Tommy Lee Jones.

I also remember a movie made for TV, that was made about Hughs and i believe it was T.L. Jones playing Hughs. But i believe it came out in the 80's and i taped it off tv at the time.
I was on here because i was trying to find the title to it, so i could watch it again. It ended with him on the plane back to the states and he died on the flight back.
I just checked under T. L. Jones on here and your right. It was a movie from 1977. I must have taped it on a re-run.
Its called "The Amazing howard Hughs".

Yes I believe it could have happened like Melvin said it did. Especially after reading the director of the film, in an interview, said he believed Melvin. Of course it's a wild story, but HH led a crazy life. If Melvin found him in the desert and saved his life HH might have been inclined to put him in the will. A book, High Stakes, by Robert Rhoden (Melvin's attorney), details the trial, etc. It makes a good case. Hope you check this board, after 5 years, Smush.
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You're thinking of Melvin and Howard which came out in 1980. Anyone who did see it, do you believe it could have happened like Melvin said it did?

On ebay, they're selling a rare photo of the XF-11 crash site / wreckage - in Beverly Hills, CA.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14280&item=6941238988&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

If the movie was made before 1970 - that means Hughes was still alive, meaning he would've had to grant permission re rights, etc. no? Meaning, the portrayal would be slightly 'disguised' without Hughes' name directly attached???
My guess would be the 1964 film THE CARPETBAGGERS.
George Peppard plays a character based on Hughes.
Whether or not there's a plane crash in that film, I don't know.
See related link on imdb.com database -
http://www.imdb.com/board/10057917/

There was a movie-movie done about an ordinary guy who allegedly was left money by Hughes. It was called Harold and ? Mary Steenburgen won a supporting oscar for her role in it.However it came out in the early 80's
I know that Hughes did crash on someone's lawn in 1947? and survived only because there were people nearby to rescue him

The movie has to be older than that because my Grandfather was still alive when it came out. My Grandfather died in 1970. I have never seen the movie and nobody and my family, that has told me about it, can remember the name of it. I've done a search on IMDB and nothing seems to be a match. It might have been a movie that Hughes made that it happened in.

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