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Language. English. Flight is a 1929 American pre-Code adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. [2] The film stars Jack Holt, Lila Lee and Ralph Graves, who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. [Note 1] Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
Flight: Directed by Frank Capra. With Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves, Alan Roscoe. A Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse.
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- Action, Adventure, Romance
- Frank Capra
- 1929-11-01
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Flight is a 1929 American pre-Code adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt, Lila Lee and Ralph Graves, who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
Flight was shot in the summer of 1929 at the Columbia studios, at a Marine air base in San Diego, and in the foothills of La Mesa, California, standing in for Nicaragua. The production employed 220 men to build a complete flying field and a permanent 20-foot bridge in La Mesa.
- Frank R. Capra, Buddy Coleman
- Jack Holt
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash or the Crash of '29, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It began in September, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed, and ended in mid-November. The pivotal role of the 1920s' high-flying bull market and the ...
That is Flight. In a way, this feels more like a John Ford movie than a Capra film. It is about men at war, and there is one doozy of a battle scene in this movie, as Marines fight off Nicaraguan rebels. (Really, the camera work is outstanding in this movie considering it was 1929.) Great sequences in this film.
