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Overview

User Rating:
7.9/10   1,847 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Harry Behn (writer)
Howard Estabrook (writer)
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Release Date:
15 November 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Howard Hughes' Thrilling Multi-Million Dollar Air Spectacle more
Plot:
Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Roy and Monte Rutledge have very different personalities... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
The First Great Action Epic of the Talking Era more (39 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ben Lyon ... Monte Rutledge
James Hall ... Roy Rutledge

Jean Harlow ... Helen (as Jean Harlowe)
John Darrow ... Karl Armstedt
Lucien Prival ... Baron Von Kranz
Frank Clarke ... Lt. von Bruen
Roy Wilson ... Baldy Maloney
Douglas Gilmore ... Capt. Redfield
Jane Winton ... Baroness Von Kranz
Evelyn Hall ... Lady Randolph
William B. Davidson ... Staff Major
Wyndham Standing ... RFC squadron commander
Lena Melana ... Gretchen, waitress (as Lena Malena)
Marian Marsh ... Girl selling kisses (as Marilyn Morgan)
Carl von Haartman ... Zeppelin commander
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Additional Details

Runtime:
127 min | Belgium:94 min
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Color:
Black and White | Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Norway:16 | Brazil:14 | UK:A (original rating) (heavily cut) | UK:PG (video rating) (2005) (uncut) | USA:PG (re-release) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Howard Hughes hired WWI aces to fly the planes but also flew one himself; he crashed shortly after his first takeoff and broke several bones. more
Quotes:
Helen: I wanna be free. I wanna be gay and have fun. Life's short. And I wanna live while I'm alive. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) more
Soundtrack:
Tales of the Vienna Woods, Op.325 more

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26 out of 27 people found the following comment useful.
The First Great Action Epic of the Talking Era, 19 February 2005
9/10
Author: FEAvera from United States

With the release of "The Aviator" there will be renewed, and well deserved, interest in this classic. Hell's Angels holds together surprisingly well for a 75 year old film. Sure there is the over-emoting one would expect from a film that bridges the era between silents and talkies, but the character development is good, the flight scenes are amazing and the story holds the attention from beginning to end. And we haven't even talked about Jean Harlow!! There can be no doubt that Howard Hughes was a genius, a perfectionist, and that he set out to, and did, produce of of the greatest movies of all time. The most expensive film of it's day, and worth every penny.

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