You Can't Win 'Em All is a 1970

1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

 war film, written by Leo Gordon

Leo Gordon

Leo Vincent Gordon was an American movie and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer and novelist. He specialized in playing brutish bad guys during more than forty years in film and television....

 (also an actor who appears in the film) and directed by Peter Collinson

Peter Collinson (film director)

Peter Collinson was a British film director probably best known for directing the 1969 movie The Italian Job.- Early life :...

, starring Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama...

 and Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson , born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series...

 as two American soldiers in 1922 Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 who protect the three daughters of a Turkish governor while thwarting an Turkish army colonel's attempt to take gold on a train the two soldiers happen to be on. The setting is the time of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).

Production notes

Aircraft sequences were flown and coordinated by Charles Boddington and Louis Benjamin. The aircraft were owned by ex-RCAF pilot Lynn Garrison

Lynn Garrison

Lynn Garrison is a Canadian pilot and political adviser. He was an RCAF fighter pilot from the 403 City of Calgary Squadron, commercial pilot, film producer, director and mercenary...

 who shipped several of his SE-5 replicas from Ireland to Turkey for the production. They had previously featured in The Blue Max

The Blue Max

The Blue Max is an 1966 British war film about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I. It was directed by John Guillermin, stars George Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress, and features Karl Michael Vogler and Jeremy Kemp. The screenplay was written by David Pursall,...

and Darling Lili

Darling Lili

Darling Lili is a 1970 American musical film. The screenplay was written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, who also directed. The cast included Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, and Jeremy Kemp.-Plot:...

and would go on to star in Von Richthofen and Brown

Von Richthofen and Brown

Von Richthofen and Brown also known as The Red Baron, is a film directed by Roger Corman, and starring John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as the titular characters....

, Zeppelin

Zeppelin

A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899...

, The Great Waldo Pepper

The Great Waldo Pepper

The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. It stars Robert Redford as a discontented airplane pilot in the years 1926-1931....

, and numerous TV commercials.