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British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
- Awards
- 2 wins total
Sidney Bracey
- Major Brand's Orderly
- (as Sidney Bracy)
Hal Brazeale
- Gregory
- (uncredited)
Tyrone Brereton
- Orderly
- (uncredited)
Richard Deane
- 'B' Flight Replacement
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt the time this movie was filmed, Errol Flynn and David Niven shared a rented house at Malibu, which they named "Cirrhosis-by-the-Sea" because of all the hard drinking and sex they were having with several women.
- GoofsThe amount of oil and dirt on Courtney's face changes several times between scenes. The most obvious is when he goes up stairs to console another pilot who has lost a friend. As he goes up his face is slightly dirty, as he enters the room it is noticeably dirtier and when he comes back down it is much cleaner.
- Quotes
Phipps: [Opens package dropped by enemy plane] It's his helmet and goggles. It means a very gallant gentleman died this afternoon. And for what? What have all these deaths accomplished? So many fine chaps have died in this war and are going to die in future wars.
[pause]
Phipps: That's all, gentlemen.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996)
- SoundtracksPoor Butterfly
(1916) (uncredited)
Music by Raymond Hubbell
Lyrics by John Golden
Played on the Grammaphone
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Warner Brothers more than most of the other major studios had a habit of simply recycling the old plots of their films and repackaging them. A good example would be the boxing film Kid Galahad remade a few years later as The Wagons Roll at Night with the setting now changed to a circus. But in this case we didn't get a remake of The Dawn Patrol, we got practically a carbon copy.
I finally saw the original The Dawn Patrol that was made in 1930 by Howard Hawks and found that this film was practically a word for word remake of the Hawks classic. Of course it was no surprise to learn that all the aviation sequences were just lifted bodily from the first film, but probably more than that was done. Several long-shots looked exactly the same.
In a way this might have worked out because director Edmund Goulding who was not known for action films could concentrate on the actors and he got very good performances out of Errol Flynn, David Niven, and Basil Rathbone who step into the parts that Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Neil Hamilton did the first time around.
Still after seeing first one version, than the other, one might be complaining of double vision at that.
I finally saw the original The Dawn Patrol that was made in 1930 by Howard Hawks and found that this film was practically a word for word remake of the Hawks classic. Of course it was no surprise to learn that all the aviation sequences were just lifted bodily from the first film, but probably more than that was done. Several long-shots looked exactly the same.
In a way this might have worked out because director Edmund Goulding who was not known for action films could concentrate on the actors and he got very good performances out of Errol Flynn, David Niven, and Basil Rathbone who step into the parts that Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Neil Hamilton did the first time around.
Still after seeing first one version, than the other, one might be complaining of double vision at that.
- bkoganbing
- May 31, 2007
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- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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