Men of the Sky
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1942-07-25
Runtime: 20 mins
Director: B. Reeves Eason
Writer: Owen Crump
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama, War
Original title: Men of the Sky
Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Tod Andrews
Eleanor Parker
Don DeFore
Ray Montgomery
Ruth Ford
Dave Willock
Owen Crump
Henry H. Arnold
Franklyn Farnum
Inez Gay
Sol Gorss
Harry Harvey Jr.
Billy Lechner
Hank Mann
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