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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Harry Behn (writer)
Howard Estabrook (writer)
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Release Date:
15 November 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Howard Hughes' Thrilling Multi-Million Dollar Air Spectacle more
Plot:
Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Roy and Monte Rutledge have very different personalities... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ben Lyon ... Monte Rutledge
James Hall ... Roy Rutledge

Jean Harlow ... Helen (as Jean Harlowe)
John Darrow ... Karl Armstedt
Lucien Prival ... Baron Von Kranz
Frank Clarke ... Lt. von Bruen
Roy Wilson ... Baldy Maloney
Douglas Gilmore ... Capt. Redfield
Jane Winton ... Baroness Von Kranz
Evelyn Hall ... Lady Randolph
William B. Davidson ... Staff Major
Wyndham Standing ... RFC squadron commander
Lena Melana ... Gretchen, waitress (as Lena Malena)
Marian Marsh ... Girl selling kisses (as Marilyn Morgan)
Carl von Haartman ... Zeppelin commander
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Additional Details

Runtime:
127 min | Belgium:94 min
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Color:
Black and White | Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Norway:16 | Brazil:14 | UK:A (original rating) (heavily cut) | UK:PG (video rating) (2005) (uncut) | USA:PG (re-release) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

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Trivia:
All color prints of the movie were thought to be lost until a print was found in John Wayne's personal vault in 1989, ten years after the actor's death, by his son Michael Wayne. That explains why the younger Wayne's name appears on the credits of the restored version. It is possible that Wayne received the print from the film's producer/director, Howard Hughes. The actor starred in Jet Pilot (1957) for Hughes in 1949, but the film was not released until 1957 because Hughes continued to have the flying sequences re-shot, a situation not unlike this film. more
Quotes:
Monte Rutledge: Listen, Roy, never love a woman. Just make love to her. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Brady Bunch Hour: (#1.1)" (1977) more
Soundtrack:
Wine, Women and Song, Op.333 more

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36 out of 40 people found the following comment useful.
Head In the Clouds, 3 January 2003
9/10
Author: telegonus from brighton, ma

Howard Hughes produced and directed (with a little help from Edmund Goulding and Howard Hawks) this 1930 aerial extravaganza, whose plot is both hackneyed and largely irrelevant, since one is merely waiting for the heavy melodrama to end so as to feast one's eyes on Jean Harlow and aerial combat scenes. The photography is magnificent, and one gets a kind of God's eye view of reenactments of World War I dogfights. The leading actors, Ben Lyon and James Hall, playing brothers, give such intense performances as to suggest at times that they are not merely emotionally but romantically attached to one another. Those old-fangled airplanes are something to see, as is a gigantic zeppelin, and the combat scenes, full of billowing clouds, the sky full of airplanes that resemble orange crates with wings, buzzing and whistling through the air like flies, are the stuff of dreams, and make this otherwise turgid movie come alive and live in one's mind long after it's over.

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