Tailspin Tommy is flying through a severe storm to deliver a payroll. What he doesn't know is that a gang of crooks is setting a trap for him in order to get their hands on the money.
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| John Trent | ... | Tailspin Tommy Tompkins | |
| Marjorie Reynolds | ... | Betty Lou Barnes | |
| Milburn Stone | ... | Skeeter Milligan | |
| Jason Robards Sr. | ... | Paul Smith (as Jason Robards) | |
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Tommy Baker | ... | Whitey |
| Dennis Moore | ... | Mike | |
| Julius Tannen | ... | Dawson | |
| Eddie Parker | ... | Williams (as Edwin Parker) | |
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Joseph E. Bernard | ... | Brown (as Joe Bernard) |
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Harry Harvey Jr. | ... | Johnny |
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Walter Wills | ... | Cap |
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Johnnie Fleming | ||
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Tailspin Tommy is flying through a severe storm to deliver a payroll. What he doesn't know is that a gang of crooks is setting a trap for him in order to get their hands on the money.
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You're Crazy, Tommy, No Plane Can Hold Together in a Storm Like This! See more »Genres:
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1 November 1939 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Alhambra Airport - Valley Blvd. & Del Mar Avenue, Alhambra, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Color:
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The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film. See more »Quotes
Betty Lou: Tommy says it's as natural for kids today to want to fly as to swim or play football.See more »
Comic strip star Tailspin Tommy befriends a surly youth who likes to play with model planes. Can Tommy fly one DANGER FLIGHT after another and still have time to turn this child into a productive young member of society?
Monogram had a well-deserved reputation for knowing its audience and never worrying it with too many challenges. In this case, the producers have, rather cleverly, brought a rather generic pilot hero from the comic strips to life by intermixing the standard flier daring-do with a unique plot about model airplanes, and a not so unique troubled youth with a criminal brother plot. All of this in effect makes the kid the protagonist of the story, and Tailspin himself a supporting character available for firm jawed daring-do during terribly stormy weather and the inevitable kidnapping/robbery plot. The result is good for Monogram -- it moves quickly enough that the gaping geographical holes in the plot are easy enough to ignore.