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Hell's Angels Overview:

Hell's Angels (1930) was a War - Drama Film directed by Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding (uncredited) and James Whale (uncredited) and produced by Howard Hughes.

Academy Awards 1929/30 --- Ceremony Number 3 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Cinematography(Gaetano Gaudio), (Harry Perry)Nominated
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Hell's Angels BlogHub Articles:

Screen Capture Theatre: "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or Diff'rent Spokes

By David on Jan 16, 2022 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

This time around on Screen Capture Theatre we look at the 1967 film "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or as I like to think of it ... Who is this fine, upstanding citizen? Kindly Father Harrigan of the local parish? No, it is only Psycho -- er, Cycle Sid, a member of the upstanding Hell's Angels. ... Read full article

"Hell's Angels on Wheels," or Diff'rent Spokes

By David on Aug 26, 2015 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

This time around on Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions we look at the 1967 film "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or as I like to think of it ... Who is this fine, upstanding citizen? Kindly Father Harrigan of the local parish? No, it is only Psycho -- er, Cycle Sid, a... Read full article

"Hell's Angels on Wheels," or Diff'rent Spokes

By David on Aug 26, 2015 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

This time around on Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions we look at the 1967 film "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or as I like to think of it ... Who is this fine, upstanding citizen? Kindly Father Harrigan of the local parish? No, it is only Psycho -- er, Cycle Sid, a... Read full article

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Hell's Angels Quotes:

Helen: Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
Helen: I wanna be free. I wanna be gay and have fun. Life's short. And I wanna live while I'm alive.
Monte Rutledge: Listen, Roy, never love a woman. Just make love to her.
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Hell's Angels Facts
Howard Hughes had all the prints tinted and hand-colored before releasing them for general distribution.
All color prints of the movie were thought to be lost until a print was found in John Wayne's personal vault in 1989, ten years after the actor's death, by his son Michael Wayne. That explains why the younger Wayne's name appears on the credits of the restored version. It is possible that Wayne received the print from the film's producer/director, Howard Hughes. The actor starred in Jet Pilot for Hughes in 1949, but the film was not released until 1957 because Hughes continued to have the flying sequences re-shot, a situation not unlike this film.
Entire story had been filmed as a silent, minus a soundtrack, by Howard Hughes in 1928. Greta Nissen had the role played later by Jean Harlow. When sound equipment became available Hughes decided to re-shoot the whole film as a talkie.
249 feet of film were shot for every foot used in the final cut.
Although it has been reported that Hughes re-shot all the silent material, that seems unlikely looking at the footage shot in the dirigible. The voices are out-of-sync and some of the action seems hurried, suggesting it was shot at a silent speed of 18 frames per second, rather than 24 fps sound speed and dubbed later.
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