Drama ·War · United States of America · 1942 · 20m

Men of the Sky

Director

Cast

Tod Andrews as Cadet Frank Bickley Eleanor Parker as Mrs. Frank Bickley Don DeFore as Cadet Dick Mathews Ray Montgomery as Cadet Jim Morgan Ruth Ford as Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart Dave Willock as Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens

Crew

Charles P. Boyle — Director of Photography Harold McLernon — Editor Owen Crump — Writer Gordon Hollingshead — Producer

Synopsis

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

Mood & Themes

world war ii pilot volunteer us military military training air force pilot u.s. army air corps pilot training flight training wartime propaganda

Key Collaborators

B. Reeves Eason Director Charles P. Boyle Director of Photography Harold McLernon Editor Owen Crump Writer Gordon Hollingshead Producer

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