Flying Cadets

Flying Cadets (1941)

DARING TO DIE -- TO FLY!

Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.

Date of release
1941-10-24
TMDB
4.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 4m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Director
Erle C. Kenton

Casting

Interesting facts

Flying Cadets is a 1941 American adventure film directed by Erle C. Kenton and written by George Waggner, Roy Chanslor and Stanley Rubin. The film stars William Gargan, Edmund Lowe, Peggy Moran, Frank Albertson, Frankie Thomas and Riley Hill. Flying Cadets was released on October 24, 1941, by Universal Pictures.

Production

Flying Cadets was produced in the years before World War II, when the United States government encouraged Hollywood studios to produce films that would encourage youth to join the resurgent armed forces, especially the U.S. Army Air Corps. Flying Cadets joined 20,000 Men a Year (1939), I Wanted Wings (1941), Give Us Wings (1940) and others of that genre, as a patriotic "flag-waver".

Principal photography on Flying Cadets took place from May 12, to late May 1941. The aircraft featured in the film included:

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