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Wings (1927)

PG-13 08/12/1927 (US) Drama, Action, War, Romance 2h 24m

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Youth, hitting the clouds! Laughing at danger! Fighting, loving, dodging death! That's "WINGS"

Overview

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.

William A. Wellman

Director
Louis D. Lighton

Screenplay
Hope Loring

Screenplay
John Monk Saunders

Story
Byron Morgan

Story
Julian Johnson

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Top Billed Cast

Clara Bow

Mary Preston
Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Jack Powell
Richard Arlen

David Armstrong
Jobyna Ralston

Sylvia Lewis
El Brendel

Herman Schwimpf
Richard Tucker

Air Commander
Gary Cooper

Cadet White
Gunboat Smith

The Sergeant
Roscoe Karns

Lieutenant Cameron
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A review by CinemaSerf

70%

Written by CinemaSerf on June 18, 2023

OK, so the initial story is all a bit of well trammelled soap. "Jack" (Buddy Rogers) and "David" (Richard Arlen) come from different sides of the streets - but they both fall in love with "Sylvia" (Jobyna Ralston). She probably prefers the latter, wealthier man, but plays both along whilst the former's neighbour "Mary" is deeply enamoured with him even if her affections go unreturned. Things change tack rather, though, when the US Army Air Service needs their flying skills during the Great war in France so off they go to face the legendary fighter aces of the Bosch. There's no love lost between... read the rest.

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