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Flight (1929) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Frank Capra and produced by Frank Capra and Harry Cohn.

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The Last Flight (1931) and The Lost Generation

By 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 20, 2022 From 4 Star Films

The Last Flight could conceivably be tacked onto the end of The Dawn Patrol. Although there is only one full scene of aerial combat, it informs everything that’s to follow because this shared experience colors the lives of the men who pushed through it. Some of them have been pushed through ir... Read full article

From the Archives: Flight from Ashiya ( 1964 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on May 27, 2020 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Yul Brynner was such a good actor and he made a number of great films. He gave an especially good performance in this picture - Flight from Ashiya ( 1964 ) - as the pilot of a U.S Air Force Rescue Service helicopter who, in the midst of a storm, must rescue survivors from a shipwreck. I read the no... Read full article

book: The Flight Attendant (2018) by Chris Bohjalian

By John Grant on Dec 27, 2019 From Noirish

Cassie Bowden, fast approaching forty, is an alcoholic long-haul flight attendant with a bad habit of having one-night stands at the stopover points with male passengers. One morning she wakes in Dubai with a splitting hangover to discover that the man in bed beside her is dead, his throat slit whil... Read full article

King of the Rocket Men (1949, Fred C. Brannon), Chapter 8: Suicide Flight

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 14, 2017 From The Stop Button

Maybe I missed Tristram Coffin revealing his Rocket Man identity to Mae Clarke and House Peters Jr. Or maybe they just don’t question only Rocket Man ever coming to their rescue after Coffin has put them in danger. This chapter is a mild improvement over the previous one, though the cliffhange... Read full article

Tomorrow, take (Angels) Flight

By carole_and_co on Aug 30, 2017 From Carole & Co.

Tomorrow, Aug. 31, I'll be able to do something Carole Lombard probably did when she still was Jane Alice Peters, child emigre from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Los Angeles -- and there's a good chance she did it before she ever stepped in front of a morion picture camera.What am I talking about? This:Yes, ... Read full article

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Flight Quotes:

Steve Roberts: [On the Nicaraguan rebels] You know damn well what's going to happen if these people come along and catch you alive.
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Flight Facts
Director Frank Capra was upset with Jack Holt's refusal to stand up in the plane that was flying, until he learned that Holt had been playing with the ripcord. The parachute had opened, and had Holt stood up he would have been dragged out of the plane. A red ribbon was tied to Holt's ripcord for the remainder of filming.
The wrong-way run was based on the infamous play by Roy Riegels of the University of California in the 1929 Rose Bowl. With the score 0-0 in the second quarter, Riegels recovered a Georgia Tech fumble at the Yellow Jackets' 30, somehow got turned the wrong way, and ran 65 yards toward his own goal line. A teammate grabbed him, but he was dropped at his own 1. The Golden Bears elected to punt, the punt was blocked out of the end zone for a safety touch, and the 2 points provided the margin of victory in Georgia Tech's 8-7 win. The movie uses actual footage of Riegels from the game.
The invasion of Nicaragua to avenge the deaths of U.S. Marines was based on at least one actual incident. On February 27, 1928, a band of Sandanista rebels killed 5 Marines and wounded 8 others in an ambush.
Frank Capra had 28 airplanes as well as mechanics and pilots at his disposal, supplied by the U.S. Marines, including technical advisor Francis E. Pierce, who served in Nicaragua in 1928.
Aerial shots of the actors were taken from real planes, without trick photography. However, Jack Holt's plane crashed during filming causing minor injuries. Deliberate airplane crashes were done with models.
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