It's in the Air (1935)
THEY PUT A NEW HIGH IN HILARITY!
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
- Date of release
- 1935-10-10
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Charles Reisner
Casting
- Jack Benny — Calvin Churchill
- Ted Healy — 'Clip' McGurk
- Una Merkel — Alice Lane Churchill
- Nat Pendleton — Henry Potke
- Mary Carlisle — Grace Gridley
- Grant Mitchell — W. R. Gridley
- Harvey Stephens — Sidney Kendall
- Charles Trowbridge — Alfred Drake
- Johnny Arthur — Jones, Photographer
- Al Shean — Mr. Johnson
- Purnell Pratt — Horace McNab
- Phillips Smalley — Mr. Winterby
Interesting facts
It's in the Air is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Byron Morgan and Lew Lipton. The film stars Jack Benny in his final film for MGM, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, Nat Pendleton, Mary Carlisle and Grant Mitchell. It's in the Air was released on October 11, 1935, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Production
Principal photography on It's in the Air took place from mid-July to August 17, 1935. The film, followed Lost in the Stratosphere (1935) as one of the few 1930s aviation films that focused on high altitude balloons.
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