Wings of the Navy (Region 1 DVD)
Description
Biplanes flying in formation past the Washington Monument. A flotilla of seaplanes rising majestically off the surface of the Atlantic. Flyboys loop-de-looping their crafts through the wild blue yonder. A power dive that goes terrifyingly wrong. Wings of the Navy's story concerns two pilot brothers (George Brent and john Payne) who fall for the same girl (Olivia de Havilland, in the first of five films she would appear in during 1939, including Gone with the Wind), but the film is most memorable for it's thrilling, you-are-there scenes of aerial glory. With war clouds gathering in Europe, many Americans looked anxiously to their own nation's military readiness. For all the world to witness that America will not be unprepared! declared the films advertising - and backed it up with bravura footage shot at Pensacola Naval Station in Florida and North Island Naval Station at Coronado, California.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 888574078119
- Department
- Movies & TV
- Released
- 30 Sep 2014
- Type
- Movies
- Format
- DVD
- Genre
- Drama
- Sub-genre
- Classic
- Region
- Region 1
- Studio
- Warner Archives
- Age Restriction
- NR
- Supply Source
- USA
Movie
- Title
- Wings of the Navy
- Release Year
- 1939
- Running Time
- 88 min
- Language
- English
- Categories
- Action/Adventure / Brothers / Competitions / Flying / Love / Love Triangle / Military / Pilots / Rivalry / Romance / Romances / Submarines / Training / Trains / War
- Synopsis
- Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros. drama was dedicated to the U.S. Naval Aviation Service and probably served as propaganda when it was released in 1939, right before the U.S. involvement in WWII. Submarine officer Jerry Harrington (John Payne) goes to Pensacola to train as a flying cadet, just like his father and his brother, longtime airman Cass Harrington (George Brent). Jerry ends up falling for his brother's girlfriend, Irene Dale (Olivia deHavilland), which only increases the competition between the two brothers. After Cass gets injured, Jerry becomes a pilot in San Diego and Irene must choose which man she wants. Also starring Frank McHugh.
- Release Notes
DVD Features:
- Region [unknown]
- Cast & Crew
- Director
- Lloyd Bacon
- Star
- George Brent / Olivia de Havilland / John Litel / Frank McHugh / John Payne
- Co-Star
- Donald Briggs / Morgan Conway / Joseph Crehan / William B. Davidson / Alan Davis / Don Douglas / Edgar Edwards / John Gallaudet / Jack Gardner / Mary Gordon / Jonathan Hale / Howard Hickman / Max Hoffman / Selmer Jackson / Victor Jory / Edward Keane / Walter Miller / Carlyle Moore / Alberto Morin / Henry O'Neill / Eddie Parker / Lee Phelps / Renie Riano / John Ridgely / Regis Toomey / Emmett Vogan / Max Wagner / Pierre Watkin / Larry Williams
- Screenwriter
- Michael Fessier
- Special Effects
- H. F. Koenekamp
- Director of Photography
- Elmer Dyer / Arthur Edeson
- Sound
- Francis J. Scheid
- Music Director
- Leo F. Forbstein
- Song Composer
- Johnny Mercer / Harry Warren