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Budget. $1.77 million [1] Box office. $3.4 million [1] [2] Captains of the Clouds ( a.k.a. Shadows of Their Wings) is a 1942 American war film in Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney. It was produced by William Cagney (Cagney's brother), with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was written by Arthur ...
Captains of the Clouds: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale. Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Michael Curtiz
- 1942-02-21
Captains of the Clouds was released fairly early in 1942 and therefore began production before the Pearl Harbor attack, when the U.S. was still a neutral country. . Isolationists in Washington condemned Hollywood's increasingly pro-mobilization movies as violations of the Neutrality Act, and caused trouble for the Warners' film Sergeant York and a few othe
- Michael Curtiz, Frank Heath, Hugh Macmullan
- James Cagney
Captains of the Clouds (1942) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Brian MacLean (James Cagney) is a reckless Canadian bush pilot who joins the air force at the beginning of World War II. He must learn to put his country before himself and respect his superiors to clear his reputation and win the respect of his friends and colleagues.
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- James Cagney
- Michael Curtiz
- War
Oscar-winner James Cagney ("Yankee Doodle Dandy") stars in this WWII adventure about a mail flyer who joins the Canadian Air Force for fun but finds himself ...
After a short-lived honeymoon in Ottawa, MacLean decides to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Like many others, he's itching to get to Europe where World War II is raging but Mac Lean has some difficulty adapting to the RCAF way of flying and giving up his fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach. After causing a death, he is expelled from ...
