The Dawn Patrol
They roared through the dawn... with death on their wings!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 27, 2007
- Originally Released: 1938
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Errol Flynn | |
Performer: | Carl Esmond, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Melville Cooper, Donald Crisp & Barry Fitzgerald | |
Directed by | Edmund Goulding | |
Edited by | Ralph Dawson | |
Screenwriting by | Dan Totheroh | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | John Hughes | |
Story by | John Monk Saunders | |
Produced by | Seton I. Miller | |
Director of Photography: | Tony Gaudio |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1931 -
Best Original Screenplay: John Monk Saunders
Entertainment Reviews:
84%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,148
Rating: 7/10 --
...camaraderie and dogfights and bombing runs and stiff upper lips.
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Movie Metropolis
It is quite a good picture, well-directed and in some cases well-acted, but I don't believe it's true-a great deal of self- pity and romanticism have gone to the making of this excellent ham-sandwich.
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The Spectator
Rating: B- --
Competent remake of the 1930 Howard Hawks film of the same title.
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Product Description:
Basil Rathbone is the major who sends his brave boys to face certain death each morning in this dark, yet jubilant World War I drama. Errol Flynn and David Niven are the hard-drinking aces in the squad who wish they had a few more days to teach the new pilots a few basic moves before they're sent up to face the dreaded Baron Richter. It's tragedy and camaraderie as the boys bond in the face of their own mortality and sing sentiments like "Hurrah for the next who dies" while getting drunk at the local inn. A peculiar respect and admiration develops between the German fliers and these brave Brits, which lends this war film unusual poignancy. If this all sounds an awful lot like a Howard Hawks film, that's because it's essentially a remake of his 1930 version. Perhaps in making this film director Edmund Goulding wanted to get away from his reputation as a director of soapy women's melodramas. If so, he succeeded admirably: there's breathtaking aerial combat scenes, strong performances, clever dialogue, and not a single woman in the cast.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 117,648
- UPC: 012569796249
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item