Skyward

Directed by Ron Howard
1980    1h 40m    Not Rated
7.1
An aging Bette Davis is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Davis teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Howard Hessman is a aircraft repair service trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
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Cast of Skyward
  • Bette DavisBillie Dupree
  • Howard HessemanKoup Trenton
  • Suzy BarbieriJulie Ward
  • Marion RossNatalie Ward
  • Clu GulagerSteve Ward
  • Ben MarleyScott Billings
  • Lisa WhelchelLisa Ward
  • Irma P. HallMrs. Sinclair
  • Mark WheelerMr. Olsen
  • Jessie Lee FultonSecretary
  • Bill ThurmanPilot #1
  • Rance HowardPilot #2
  • Rhonda MintonStephanie
  • Gene PietragalloJason
  • Greta BlackburnMiss Russell
  • Jeff NicholsonTheatre Usher
  • Kate FinlaysonNurse
  • Rusty McCaskeyBoy in Class
  • Bill BlackwoodSelf

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