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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
Parachute Jumper (1933) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Parachute Jumper is a 1933 Pre-Code black-and-white drama film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh. It was based on a story by Rian James entitled "Some Call It Love".
- Alfred E. Green
Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film Parachute Jumper, released in 1933 by Warner Bros., starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd and Leo Carrillo, and directed by Alfred E. Green.
In Central Park, in the suit he’s sharing with his equally-broke out-of-work pilot buddy, discouraged Bill (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) gets approached by Bette Davis as “Alabama,” with suitable accent masking her New England ancestry, early in the Warner Bros. action-comedy Parachute Jumper, 1933.
