Errol Flynn
Captain Courtney
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1938 movie "The Dawn Patrol" starring Errol Flynn as Courtney, David Niven as Scott and Basil Rathbone as Major Brand. Royal Flying Corps fighter pilots over the Western Front. This was a remake of the 1930 film "Flight Commander".
- 103 min
- 24.1K
- mikedavies
The Dawn Patrol: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp. British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
- (3.4K)
- Drama, War
- Edmund Goulding
- 1938-12-24
The Dawn Patrol is a 1938 American war film, a remake of the pre-Code 1930 film of the same title. Both were based on the short story "The Flight Commander" by John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service.
The Dawn Patrol is more of a throwback to a different way of fighting and looking at war, where flyers are elite individuals rather than members of a fighting group. The Dawn Patrol, in fact, had been made before, in 1930, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. That film became instantly famous for ...
- Edmund Goulding, Oren Haglund, Frank Heath
- Errol Flynn
The Dawn Patrol: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh. World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
- (2K)
- Action, Drama, War
- Howard Hawks
- 1930-08-20
When Captain Courtney (Errol Flynn) and his buddy Scott (David Niven) lose another of their best friends in a dangerous mission, Courtney lashes out at Brand, who hands Courtney the reins. Now in...
- War, Drama
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