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WWI pilots dogfight soldiers zeppelin prisoner of war

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Hell's Angels (1930)

Directed by Howard Hughes

War | Drama

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Overview

When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.

Rated NR | Length 131 minutes

Actors

Ben Lyon | James Hall | Jean Harlow | John Darrow | Lucien Prival | Frank Clarke | Roy Wilson | Douglas Gilmore | Jane Winton | Evelyn Hall | William B. Davidson | Wyndham Standing | Lena Malena | Marian Marsh | Carl von Haartman | Ferdinand Schumann-Heink | Stephen Carr | Thomas Carr | J. Granville-Davis | Nora Cecil | Rene Marvelle | Georgette Rhodes | Howard Batt | George Berliner | Bob Blair | Eddie Brownell | Hank Coffin | Ross Cooke | Lawford Davidson | Jack Deery | Lucy Doraine | David Findlay | Curt Furberg | Frank Goddard | Lisa Gora | Douglas Gordon | Owen Gorin | Pat Harmon | Hans Joby | Al Johnson | Morey Johnson | Werner Klingler | Burton Lane | Al Lary | Garland Lincoln | Harry Lipman | Maurice Murphy | Stewart Murphy | Leo Nomis | Ira Reed | Harry Semels | Ernie Smith | Pat Somerset | Joan Standing | Harry Strang | C.F. Sullivan | Gertrude Sutton | Frank Tomick | Roscoe Turner | Wilhelm von Brincken | Tibor von Janny | Al Wilson

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Viewing Notes

Howard Hughes flick! All the dogfight sequences are incredible. Great editing between pilots and aerial action. Crazy watching it knowing how difficult it had to be to make it all work and capture it. The zeppelin sequence is really good, too.

The love triangle between the brothers and Helen (Jean Harlow) is amusing and includes a rather risque scene w/Harlow and Monte back at her apartment. Hard to believe she was only like 18 or 19 when they made this movie.

Another observation: a lot of the acting is exaggerated as though they were making a silent movie. Of course this is right on the advent of talkies so it makes sense plus for all the German sequences they use intertitles but most of the German spoken isn’t translated. Also for this restoration there a few sequences in color, which was odd to see but they looked good, esp. the ballroom dance.

I’d love to watch a documentary on the making of this movie just for the aerial combat shoot.

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