The Lost Squadron
In hard times just after World War I, three ex-fighter pilots land jobs as Hollywood stunt fliers working for a dictatorial director.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Run Time: 1 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 1, 2018
- Originally Released: 1932
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Erich von Stroheim, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea & Robert Armstrong | |
Performer: | Hugh Herbert, Ralph Ince, Ralph Lewis & William B. Davidson | |
Directed by | George Archainbaud | |
Edited by | William Hamilton | |
Screenplay by | Wallace Smith | |
Director of Photography: | Edward Cronjager & Leo Tover |
Entertainment Reviews:
It is an excellent melodrama, ably directed, with a background familiar to producers -- for it is chiefly concerned with stunt flying before the cameras in Hollywood and a film director is the evil genius.
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New York Times
With a cynically acidic script by Herman J Mankiewicz, among others, this early talkie is one of the most enjoyably scabrous examples of Hollywood on Hollywood.
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Time Out
It is not without authority, even though the dramatics are a bit strained.
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Variety
Rating: B --
Penned in a delightfully nasty cynical way by Herman Mankiewicz.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Bizarre but absorbing.
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TV Guide
Description by OLDIES.com:
Forged in the fiery skies of World War I, a squadron of American fliers is connected by unbreakable bonds of loyalty, blood and grief. Going their separate ways after the war, these debonair daredevils of the air find civilian life somewhat lacking. Jobs, girls and even fortune have all been lost while they served the country. When one of them lands a gig as a stunt flyer in the suddenly booming motion-picture business of Hollywood and Burbank, it's one for all and all for one. Now reunited, the lost squadron astounds with its daredevil exploits, only to face a menace more dangerous than the Red Baron: tyrannical director Von Furst (Erich von Stroheim). When one of their number is killed because of Von Furst, the boys declare war on Hollywood.
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- UPC: 888574657543
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