Men with Wings

Men with Wings (1938)

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.

Data de estreia
1938-07-16
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (5)
Duração
1 h 45 min
Géneros
Drama
Realizador
William A. Wellman

Elenco

Curiosidades

Men with Wings é um filme estadunidense de 1938, do gênero drama de guerra, dirigido por William A. Wellman e estrelado por Fred MacMurray e Ray Milland. Wellman e o roteirista Robert Carson vinham do sucesso A Star Is Born; Wellman também dirigiu Wings, outra aventura de guerra, vencedora do primeiro Oscar de Melhor Filme em 1929. Tudo isso, aliado a uma produção luxuosa, ao uso do ainda raro Technicolor e a um elenco de peso, fazia prever outro triunfo para a Paramount. Contudo, apesar de algumas excitantes cenas aéreas, o filme esbarrou no roteiro, que seguia a velha fórmula do triângulo amoroso, o que se revelou frustrante nas bilheterias.

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