When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
Practical Effects
80 pilots, 87 planes, multiple deaths filming real dogfights.
Cinematography
Technicolor sequences so rare they were lost for decades.
Production
Hughes directed uncredited when original director quit.
Director
Howard Hughes
Ben Lyon
Monte Rutledge
James Hall
Roy Rutledge
Jean Harlow
Helen
John Darrow
Karl Armstedt
Lucien Prival
Baron Von Kranz
Frank Clarke
Lt. von Bruen
Douglas Gilmore
Capt. Redfield
Jane Winton
Baroness Von Kranz
Evelyn Hall
Lady Randolph
William B. Davidson
Staff Major
Wyndham Standing
RFC Squadron Commander
Lena Malena
Gretchen the Waitress
Marian Marsh
Girl Selling Kisses
Carl von Haartman
Zeppelin Commander
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Three pilots died during filming; Hughes himself crashed and was hospitalized.
Harlow's line 'I wanna be alone' (later Garbo's trademark) was originally ad-libbed here.
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