The Air Circus

The Air Circus (1928)

ROMANCE AND THRILLS WITH THE YOUNG ADVENTURERS OF THE AIR!

Lost film. Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.

Date of release
1928-09-29
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Drama, Adventure
Director
Howard Hawks, Lewis Seiler

Casting

Interesting facts

The Air Circus is a 1928 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Arthur Lake, Sue Carol, David Rollins, and Louise Dresser. It is the first of Hawks's aviation films. The film featured a talking sequence that lasted about 15 minutes with the rest of the film being synchronized with a musical score with sound effects. The soundtrack was recorded using the sound-on-film Movietone process. The film is notable as the first aviation oriented film with dialogue.

Production

The Air Circus is Hawks' seventh feature, and the first with sound dialog. The film was completely finished as a silent when the studio commissioned dialog from screenwriter F. Hugh Herbert and assigned Lewis Seiler to insert 15 minutes of talking footage, which Hawks considered "mawkish".

Principal photography took place from April to June 1928 at Clover Field, Santa Monica, California. Stunt pilot Dick Grace did most of the flying with Travel Air and Swallow biplanes featured.

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