At a time when American comics were becoming more grim and gritty, The Rocketeer was a throwback to the medium’s pulp roots.

There’s a scene in “The Rocketeer,” Disney’s big budget would-be blockbuster from the summer of 1991, that ranks among the most profoundly strange and transfixing moments in the studio’s storied ...

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