Screenplay:
Howard EstabrookComposer:
Hugo RiesenfeldCast:
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Douglas Gilmore, Jane Winton, William B. Davidson, Wyndham Standing, Marian Marsh, Carl von Haartman (more)Plots(1)
Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Roy and Monte Rutledge have very different personalities. Monte is a freewheeling womanizer, even with his brother’s girlfriend Helen. He also proves to have a yellow streak when it comes to his Night Patrol duties. Roy is made of strong moral fiber and attempts to keep his brother in line. Both volunteer for an extremely risky two man bombing mission for different reasons. Monte wants to lose his cowardly reputation and Roy seeks to protect his brother. (Bounty Films)
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Howard Hughes outdid himself and presented every conceivable attraction of the time in a single film. The film, which is in black and white, tinted, and in two-strip Technicolor, features sound and intertitles. A film that cost several people their lives and launched Jean Harlow among the constellations of the Hollywood sky. An excellent experience.
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I'll admit right up front that I wasn't enjoying the first half of the film. It felt like a melodrama with no war scenes. Then, in the second half, there were battle scenes, and I must admit that the aerial shots were truly breathtakingly filmed. This really worked out well for the megalomaniacal Hughes. However, I wasn't impressed with the plot.
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