Yön valloittajat

Name: Night Flight
Genre: Drama
Released: 1934-05-06
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable

Original title: Night Flight

1933
Passed
1h 24m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Clark Gable, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Helen Hayes, and Robert Montgomery in Yön valloittajat (1933)

Drama

Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous we... Read allPolio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

990

YOUR RATING

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John Barrymore and Helen Hayes in Yön valloittajat (1933)

Myrna Loy and William Gargan in Yön valloittajat (1933)

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Trivia
It was originally planned to show Clark Gable's character parachuting from his abandoned plane at an altitude of 25,000 feet. However, stuntman Ivan Unger, who was doubling for Gable, passed out at 20,000 feet due to lack of oxygen and the shot was never captured.

Goofs
At about the 10-minute mark, the shadow of the Patagonia biplane (the one piloted by J. Fabian, played by Clark Gable) is shown over various parts of the pasture-lands of Argentina. The shadows cast over the horse and herd of cattle below are that of a biplane, but the shadow going over the flock of sheep is clearly that of a monoplane, not a biplane.

Quotes
Wife of Brazilian Pilot: What's it all for? Just so somebody in Paris can get a postcard on Tuesday instead of Thursday?

Crazy credits
During opening credits, the film title is done as "sky writing" by an airplane, and the plane is just finishing the last "T" on "flight".

Connections
Featured in Maltin on Movies: Super 8 (2011)

Soundtracks
How Dry I Am
(uncredited)
Traditional
Sung by Robert Montgomery and Dorothy Burgess

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Breathtakingly Beautiful!

If you don't like this film you just don't like or understand early 1930s films! This is big budget, state-of-the-art, film making in EVERY department. The aviation footage is stunning. Unfortunately some miniatures were required and are more obvious today than then. But even these are about the best for their time.

What may seem conventional today, these elements were new in 1933. The use of silence - a ticking clock at a dramatic moment. A wonderful score, exceptional photography in the air and on the ground. The texture of rich background characters and extras. Exceptional editing! Death in the air is made so beautiful, romantic and horrifying all at the same time!

It's easy to laugh, but these were the days pilots were ALLOWED to bring alcohol along in the cockpit! This was little understood risky and dangerous work. And not only shown from one perspective. Each character has his own.

Reviews at the time noted all I've said and the public appreciated this and ate it up!

So if you can rise above your modern day aesthetics, I think you'll discover and amazing 1930s film! You know, they ain't making them anymore!

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