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15 November 1930 (USA)
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Howard Hughes' Thrilling Multi-Million Dollar Air Spectacle more
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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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(2 articles)
Designing for Beautility: Where Beauty Meets Utility
(From Fast Company. 3 November 2009, 12:00 PM, PST)
Hulk -- What the Hells Angels? It Was a Joke!
(From TMZ. 26 September 2009, 4:11 AM, PDT)
(From Fast Company. 3 November 2009, 12:00 PM, PST)
Hulk -- What the Hells Angels? It Was a Joke!
(From TMZ. 26 September 2009, 4:11 AM, PDT)
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Possibly the best aerial battles yet!
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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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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.
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Referenced in Scorsese on Scorsese (2004) (TV)
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Symphony No. 5 Opus 64: 2nd movement
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My roommates and I saw a few minutes of this many years ago, and we spent weeks poring over TV listings and video rentals to find more of this movie. We were not disappointed. The aerial combat scenes are, quite simply, the most astounding ever. Some scenes show DOZENS of REAL airplanes roiling in a frighteningly tight ball like a cloud of gnats, and barely missing each other. 3 pilots died filming this movie. I'm forever spoiled for the safe choreography, heavy editing, and airplane-free skies of Top Gun... Hell's Angels has real pilots doing really scary stuff. Real planes crashing into real hillsides, not "drifting behind a sand dune and then setting off a gasoline pot."
I now scoff at the computer-generated zeppelin scenes in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Howard Hughes kicked their butts over 70 years earlier.
Some of the movie is melodramatic and dated, but some human scenes are brutally harsh, powerful, and would never get filmed today because they're TOO chilling.
A really stunning movie, which not only holds up, but betters today's air movies.