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Parachute Jumper is a 1933 American pre-Code black-and-white comedy drama film directed by Alfred E. Green. Based on a story by Rian James titled "Some Call It Love", it stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh.
Parachute Jumper: Directed by Alfred E. Green. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd. To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard.
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- Drama
- Alfred E. Green
- 1933-01-28
In a time when most Americans had never been in a plane, and flying was still new and exciting, Parachute Jumper is filled aerial sequences, starting when penniless Fairbanks suits up at a carnival act catering to audiences watching parachute jumps.
- Alfred E. Green
- Douglas Fairbanks
Dec 14, 2019 · “Heh. The one we all laugh at.” Flippant and carefree for a film that concerns drug smuggling, starvation, and murder, Parachute Jumper is a typical Warner Bros. pre-Code picture– fun, reassuring, and jaw-dropping.
This pre-code movie stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Bette Davis as two victims of the Depression. It starts out with Bill (Fairbanks) and Toodles (Frank McHugh) being thrown out of the military for gallivanting with women when they should have been reporting back to a base.
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Parachute Jumper is a great Depression artifact in its never-say-die spirit. The film's two leads — Frank McHugh's adorable Toodles, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr's indefatigable Bill — scrape and scramble but never wilt before the very real, life-threatening challenges of living through a time in which money was scarce and jobs were scarcer.
