On this day in history, May 16, 1986, Tom Cruise Cold War blockbuster 'Top Gun' jets across silver screen

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On this day in history, May 16, 1986, 'Top Gun' is released — and after rising to the top of the charts, it went on to become a Hollywood movie classic of the big screen.

'Top Gun,' a triumphant all-American pre-'woke' Hollywood movie classic, was released on this day in history, May 16, 1986. Patriotic and sexy, if somewhat predictable, the action-romance placed cocky young U.S. Navy pilots in a 'Danger Zone' of love and Cold War combat. It roared across the American landscape like an F-14 strafing pop culture with one memorable explosion after another.

'In one sequence after another, the soundtrack trembles as the sleek planes pursue each other through the clouds, and, yeah, it's exciting,' wrote Roger Ebert, the celebrated late film critic, of the flick in 1986. 'The soundtrack trembles as the sleek planes pursue each other through the clouds.

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