 Stewart's next film, Billy Wilder's "The Spirit of St. Louis" (1957), saw him star as his childhood hero, Charles Lindbergh.It was a big-budget production with elaborate special effects for the flying sequences, but received only mixed reviews and did not earn back its production costs.Stewart ended the year with a starring role in the Western "Night Passage" (1957), which had originally been slated as his ninth collaboration with Mann.