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Wings
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
1927 · Directed by William A. Wellman · 144 min · Drama · Action · War · Romance · 15 frames
Tagline
Youth, hitting the clouds! Laughing at danger! Fighting, loving, dodging death! That's "WINGS"
Crew
- Screenplay: Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton
- Cinematography: Harry Perry
- Edited by: E. Lloyd Sheldon
- Produced by: Lucien Hubbard
Cast
- Clara Bow as Mary Preston
- Charles 'Buddy' Rogers as Jack Powell
- Richard Arlen as David Armstrong
- Jobyna Ralston as Sylvia Lewis
- El Brendel as Herman Schwimpf
- Richard Tucker as Air Commander
- Gary Cooper as Cadet White
- Gunboat Smith as The Sergeant
- Henry B. Walthall as Mr. Armstrong
- Roscoe Karns as Lieutenant Cameron
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: No Language
- Studios: Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Box office: $3,600,000
- Themes: friendship, paris, france, love triangle, world war i, battlefield, aerial combat, dogfight, black and white, warfare, silent film
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