Air Police (1931)

The U.S. Air Patrol is fighting alien-smuggling along the USA-Mexico border, and U.S. Army Air Corps buddies Jerry Doyle and Andy Conroy are among the pilots on this assignment. One of them is shot down by the smuggling-gang, and the other goes after the gang with vengeance.

Date of release
1931-04-10
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 4m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Director
Stuart Paton

Casting

Interesting facts

Air Police is a 1931 aviation sound film about air police produced by George W. Weeks Productions. It was distributed by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures and William Steiner Productions. Air Police was directed by Stuart Paton and stars Kenneth Harlan, Josephine Dunn, Richard Cramer and Charles Delaney.

Production

Air Police was produced by George Weeks and his small company, "Thrill-O-Dramas" which claimed to provide films that would stand out from the first talking movies. Shot by a veteran of the silent films, Stuart Paton, Air Police should be considered one of the first independent productions of the era of "talking pictures".

Although the film was an aviation adventure film, nearly all the scenes were shot in studio sets and "... despite its title and its dramatic poster, aerial scenes are rare and unconvincing; the action takes place largely indoors, especially in a Mexican cabaret." Air Police featured two aircraft, with a Travel Air 3000 flown by the "Air Patrol" and the other, a Catron & Fisk CA 11.

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