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Release Date:
20 August 1930 (USA) moreTagline:
Greatest Air Epic Ever!Awards:
Won Oscar. moreUser Comments:
Virtuoso Film-making moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Richard Barthelmess | ... | Dick Courtney |
 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | ... | Douglas 'Doug' Scott |
| Neil Hamilton | ... | Major Brand |
| Frank McHugh | ... | Flaherty |
| Clyde Cook | ... | Bott |
| James Finlayson | ... | Field Sergeant |
| Gardner James | ... | Ralph Hollister |
| William Janney | ... | Gordon 'Donny' Scott |
| Edmund Breon | ... | Lieutenant Phipps |
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108 min | USA:106 min (copyright length)Country:
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Vitaphone (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
USA:Not RatedFilming Locations:
Metropolitan Airport - 6590 Hayvenhurst Avenue, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): William Janney's character name is credited as "Gordon" on screen, but he is called "Donny" throughout. moreSoundtrack:
Stand to Your Glasses! (Hurrah for the Next Man to Die) moreFAQ
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This is what film-making is all about! The Vitaphone audio recording process challenges itself almost continuously in this early talkie. You aurally count the number of planes coming in (off-camera) while watching the reaction of the principals inside the office. You even get the correct fidelity of the wind-up gramophone as characters talk over it. Meanwhile, you watch aerial dogfights that switch seamlessly from soundstage re-creations to actual footage made by a camera mounted at the front of an aeroplane, without any jarring sense of displacement. The melodrama remains palpable with very little over-acting. I'm taking one point off for that occasional over-acting, and for the really dumb use of Southern California semi-desert topography in which the planes take off and land. It wouldn't have been that hard to find a location with a few more trees and more grass. Oh, well. The movie still must have knocked the original audiences' socks off.