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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
Apr 7, 2020 · Captains of the Clouds (1942) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #CaptainsoftheCloudsBrian MacLean wants to fight but what he gets is an assignment flying new, unarm...
- 3 min
- 3.7K
- Warner Bros. Classics
May 5, 2022 · A new Blu-ray edition of “Captains of the Clouds” from the Warner Archive Collection does full justice to the movie’s Technicolor palette, especially in several outdoor scenes in Canada’s spectacular North Bay wilderness.
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
Academy Award winner James Cagney stars with Alan Hale and Dennis Morgan as a hot-shot Canadian pilot who enlists in the Royal Canadian Air Force, becoming o...
- 3 min
- 5.2K
- Warner Bros.
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Captains of the Clouds (1942) – full review! Directed by Michael Curtiz (who would win his only Oscar for directing the Academy Award winning Best Picture released later that same year but competing one year later Casablanca (1942)) with a screenplay co-written by Norman Reilly Raine (The Life of Emile Zola (1937)) this average war drama is credited with being James Cagney’s first ...
