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15 November 1930 (USA)
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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...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Designing for Beautility: Where Beauty Meets Utility
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Hulk -- What the Hells Angels? It Was a Joke!
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Hulk -- What the Hells Angels? It Was a Joke!
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Dated, but still interesting and exciting.
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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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127 min | Belgium:94 min
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Black and White |
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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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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An eight-minute two-strip Technicolor sequence remains the only surviving color footage of its star, Jean Harlow.
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Featured in Indie Sex: Censored (2007) (TV)
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Tales of the Vienna Woods, Op.325
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This film, produced only three years after sound entered the movies, is entertaining and thoughtful. It makes good use of sound effects and has great visual effects as well. The flight scenes are impressive. Hughes flew a plane in this film (but crashed it) and three other pilots were killed during filming. The scenes of dozens of tiny aircraft swarming in the sky are still breathtaking. The plot is standard good-guys/bad-guys but adds some sensitivity to all parties. We have groups fighting a war in the air, and not too happy to be doing it. But they do their jobs, and give their lives for victory. The scene of Germans abandoning their airship is particularly wrenching and affective. Some token love interests and the usual inept comedy characters round out the cast, which all stood up to the task as well as anyone in 1930.
Jean Harlow gets her first billing in this film (she's one of my all time favorites), so it is her breakthrough movie.
Not a keeper, but see it if you can.