‘It looked like Star Wars on Earth’: the making of Top Gun at 40

I t would be one of the most important flights in film history. When a young 5ft 7in actor with long hair and ponytail rocked up on a motorcycle, a group of US navy pilots were all too happy to test his need for speed. “We were finishing up the script and I turned it over to Jerry Bruckheimer at th...

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