Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, War
Release Year: 1930
Country: USA
Runtime: 127
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English, German, French
Director: Howard HughesEdmund GouldingJames Whale
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Howard Hughes Thrilling Multi-Million Dollar Air Spectacle

Every one who has seen this sensation - concedes its unequalled pre-eminence in the history of the Screen! Howard Hughes Thrilling Air Spectacle Hells Angels. The first multi-million dollar talking picture.

Worth Waiting Three Years to See -- Worth the Four Million Dollars It Took to Make it -- Worth the Dangers Risked to Film It --

The first multi-million dollars talking picture -- tremendous in size -- shocking in its relentless realism.

Writing by: Harry Behn - writer
Howard Estabrook - writer
Joseph Moncure March - screenplay
Joseph Moncure March - story
Marshall Neilan - story

Produced by: Howard Hughes - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Ben Lyon - Monte Rutledge
James Hall - Roy Rutledge
Jean Harlow - Helen (as Jean Harlowe)
John Darrow - Karl Armstedt
Lucien Prival - Baron Von Kranz
Frank Clarke - Lt. von Bruen
Roy Wilson - Baldy Maloney
Douglas Gilmore - Capt. Redfield
Jane Winton - Baroness Von Kranz
Evelyn Hall - Lady Randolph
William B. Davidson - Staff Major

Music: Hugo Riesenfeld
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Plot Outline: Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Roy and Monte Rutledge have very different personalities...
Plot: 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 brothers 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. Their assignment to knock out a strategic German munitions facility is a booming success, but with a squadron of fighters bearing down on them afterwards, escape seems unlikely.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Pour Cuotemoc, Justine et Chlo?. (opening credits)

Goofs: We know about 10 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: After Hopes boyfriend leaves the apartment after he has identified her, the guard comes into her apartment. As he goes out to the railing, the cameraman is visible in the mirror.

Trivia: There are 11 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Howard Hughes had all the prints tinted and hand-colored before releasing them for general distribution.
• This film cost $3.8 million, so expensive that it made no profit on its first release.
• Howard Hughes hired WWI aces to fly the planes but also flew one himself; he crashed shortly after his first takeoff and broke several bones.

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