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Director:
Howard Hawks
Writers:
Frank Wead (play)
Frank Wead (screenplay)
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Release Date:
16 January 1936 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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James Cagney ... Dizzy Davis
Pat O'Brien ... Jake L. Lee
June Travis ... Tommy Thomas
Stuart Erwin ... Texas Clarke
Barton MacLane ... Al Stone
Henry Wadsworth ... Tay Lawson
Martha Tibbetts ... Mary Miller Lee
Isabel Jewell ... Lou Clarke
Craig Reynolds ... Joe Allen
Dick Purcell ... Smiley (as Dick Purcell)

Carlyle Moore Jr. ... Eddie Payson
Addison Richards ... Fred Adams
Garry Owen ... Mike Owens
Edward Gargan ... Doc Wilson
Robert Light ... Les Bogan
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | France:U (re-release)
Company:
Cosmopolitan Productions more

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Ceiling Zero (1935). Written by Frank Wead. Scenic Design by John Root. Directed by Antoinette Perry. Music Box Theatre: 10 Apr 1935- Jul 1935 (closing date unknown/104 performances). Cast: John Bohn, John Boruff, Geoffrey Bryant, Chester Clute (as "Baldy Wright"), John Drew Colt (as "Dick Peterson"), Joseph Downing, Walter Greaza (as "Al Stone"), Gladys Griswold, Alan Hale (as "Tay Lawson"), John F. Hamilton, Nedda Harrigan (as "Mary Lee"), Walter Hill, John Huntington, Hope Lawder, John Litel, Osgood Perkins (as "Jake Lee"), Margaret Perry (as "Tommy Thomas"), Philip Remar, Grandon Rhodes, G. Albert Smith, Ben Starkie, James Todd. Produced by Brock Pemberton. Note: Produced on film by Warner Brothers as a James Cagney vehicle, Ceiling Zero (1936) (USA release in mid January 1936). more
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Soundtrack:
I Can't Give You Anything but Love more

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The Flawed Aviator, 24 April 2006
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Author: zolaaar from Berlin, GER

Mail pilot Dizzy Davis (James Cagney) is a daredevil and a womanizer like a textbook example. After he dropped a scheduled flight because of a rendezvous, his friend and colleague Texas Clarke (Stuart Erwin) stands in for him. Due to bad sight, the plane meets with an accident while landing, and Texas dies. Dizzy puts the blame on himself. To fix up that fatal error, he starts a bad weather kamikaze flight.

Hawks' preliminary study to "Only Angels Have Wings" is an absorbing aviator film which does not surprise very much though. A troup of airmen, intrepidly looking in death's eye, between the flight sequences, it's a drama of interiors. Duty and honor, lust and loyalty of professionals, a question of fast-paced flow of words and swifter movements. Hawks' (typical) flawed hero, played by the master of nimble gestures, James Cagney, is small and every handling an expression of his being. Although he flirts with June Travis and tries to impose his room keys on her, his love applies to his understanding chief and friend, the plagued Pat O'Brien.

Unfortunately, all this comes along as pretty conventional (particularly for a Hawks film), but is entertaining nonetheless with a great James Cagney in the lead.

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