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Hell's Angels

Howard Hughes' Thrilling Multi-Million Dollar Air Spectacle

1930 · 2h 11m · Passed Action, Drama, War
Directed by Howard Hughes , Edmund Goulding , James Whale

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When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.

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76%
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Rotten

The machine guns are real machine guns, the bombs are real bombs, the drum of motors is the drum of genuine motors. But the actors themselves are false, puny, inadequate, the only real automatons in a world of vital steel.

Malcolm Cowley, The New Republic
Fresh

It's no sappy, imbecilic tale.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

The end result is barely adequate. But it does feature a spectacularly elaborate World War I dogfight, and an equally fine Zeppelin sequence. And of course there's Harlow.

Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh

These air scenes, with the crashing of flaming planes, have never been matched on the screen.

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times

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