Flight Angels

Flight Angels (1940)

Women Are TOUGH Angels... They Can Handle Anything That Flies... Except A Pilot!

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.

Date of release
1940-05-18
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Drama
Director
Lewis Seiler

Casting

Interesting facts

Flight Angels is a 1940 commercial aviation film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Edmund Grainger and directed by Lewis Seiler, from an original story by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay. The film stars Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, and Ralph Bellamy as airline employees, flying Douglas Sleepter Transport (DST) airliners.

Production

The use of American Airlines Douglas Sleepter Transport, the initial variant of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3 airliner, that had accommodations for 24 passengers during day and fitted out with 16 sleeper berths in the cabin for night, gave an air of authenticity to the film.

Principal photography consisting of aerial shots and exteriors took place at Burbank Airport, California. Although a mix of studio mock-ups, real aircraft and model work was used effectively, the stock footage of DC-3s at the beginning of the film led to Flagship Illinois becoming Flagship Tennessee as the airliner begins to taxi from the gate and then becomes the Flagship Illinois again as passengers are leaving after a bumpy landing, necessitat…

The cast was made up of a large group of both rising and falling stars who were not typical of a lesser film. While filming Flight Angels in 1940, Wayne Morris became interested in flying and became a naval aviator. When war was imminent, Morris joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind for the duration of the war.

When Airman Dixon joins a Chinese mercenary air force the formation of the covertly US-backed Flying Tigers is being hinted at.

Boeing 247 airliner (under the title credits, bearing the United Air Lines logo)

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended