The Fantastic Magnifico
Year: 2008
Director: Sam Sharpe
Writer: Sam Sharpe
Genre: Animation
Category: Short
Runtime: 12 min
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Color: Color
Company: View-O-Tron Films
A dark comedy about a lowly street urchin who grows up to become the greatest fighter pilot of WWI.
Synopsis: Nathan Darrow (Civil War Stories) stars as Magnifico, a young American searching for greatness against the bloody backdrop of WWI. In his quest he travels to Europe, joins the Royal Air Corps, and learns there are two things he was born to do...fly...and kill Germans. One day, separated from his squadron, his dominion over the sky is challenged by the appearance of a strange bat-winged monoplane, leading to events that will change his life forever.