Sky Giant

Sky Giant (1938)

The flash of its dramatic lightning will flame in human souls wherever men and women love!

Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy. Complications arise when Stockton's son Kenneth arrives for training and Stockton, believing his son to be a slackard, looks for an excuse to drop him from the program. Rivalry develops between Stag and Ken as well, as they fall for the same girl.

Date of release
1938-07-22
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Director
Lew Landers

Casting

Interesting facts

Sky Giant, also known as Ground Crew and Northern Flight, is a 1938 drama film directed by Lew Landers. The film stars Richard Dix, Chester Morris and Joan Fontaine. The plot revolves around a love triangle with two pilots in love with the same woman.

Production

Under the working titles of Ground Crew and Northern Flight, principal photography took place in 1938, at the Grand Central Air Terminal at Glendale, California. At the time, media attention had been focused on the record-breaking circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1938 by Howard Hughes. RKO had considered incorporating newsreel footage of the flight by Hughes in the trailer for Sky Giant.

Opening scene, a Northrop Gamma 2D-2 (s/n 12, NC2111)

American Airlines Douglas DST-217 "Flagship Washington" (s/n 1976, N18144)

Lockheed Model 12A Electra Junior (sc/n 1207, NC58Y)

final scene (front view only), Stinson SR-9.

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