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Director:
Dorothy Arzner
Writers:
Gilbert Frankau (novel)
Zoe Akins (screenplay)
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Release Date:
31 March 1933 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Higher and higher! Faster and faster! She gave herself to the great god Speed, and tried to run away from the fires within her! more
Plot:
A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair. full summary | add synopsis
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Fascinating Film more (16 total)

Cast

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Katharine Hepburn ... Lady Cynthia Darrington
Colin Clive ... Sir Christopher Strong

Billie Burke ... Lady Elaine Strong
Helen Chandler ... Monica Strong
Ralph Forbes ... Harry Rawlinson
Irene Browne ... Carrie Valentine
Jack La Rue ... Carlo
Desmond Roberts ... Bryce Mercer
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
78 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Certification:
Australia:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #1544-R)
Company:
RKO Radio Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Katharine Hepburn replaced Ann Harding. more
Quotes:
Lady Cynthia Darrington: I wouldn't have loved you if you'd been a usual man. And you wouldn't have loved me if I'd been a woman who didn't take this kind of thing seriously. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Women Who Made the Movies (1992) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Nearer My God To Thee more

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Fascinating Film, 14 May 2007
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Author: hcoursen from United States

The film does a wonderful job of integrating newsreel footage with its narrative. I assume that Lindbergh's triumphal Broadway procession after his return from Paris in 1927 was the basis for Darrington's ticker tape parade after her round the world flight. It was hard to believe that her aircraft insisted on such a dangerous entrance to its cockpit. The pilot had to climb in while only a couple of feet from a rotating propeller (or "airscrew" as the Brits would say). Hepburn is utterly convincing as an aviation obsessed and sexually neutral aristocrat. Her love affair with Strong is nicely contrasted with that of his daughter with her boyfriend. The film also shows how a missed appointment -- insignificant to one person but all the world to the other -- can have fatal consequences. Well-made, well-sequenced -- the kind of film they used to make in wonderful black and white.

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