Born Reckless 1930  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, Lee Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Frank Albertson, Warren Hymer, Pat Somerset, William Harrigan, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ferike Boros
Louis Beretti (Edmund Lowe) had been a gangster in the United States, but now he hopes for a reprieve by fighting on the Western Front during World War I.
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Death in the Air 1936  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Pilot X
Death in the Sky
Director: Elmer Clifton
Cast: Lona Andre, John Carroll, Leon Ames, Henry Hall, Wheeler Oakman, Reed Howes, Pat Somerset, Gaston Glass, Hans Joby, Willard Kent, John Elliott
Carl Goering (Leon Ames), gone mad due to his World War I air combat experiences, thinks that all flyers are out to get him. So, he intends to kill all those who pilot a plane. It's up to Helen and Jerry (Helen Gage and John Carroll) to stop this nonsense. Cheaply made with stock footage of plane crashes.
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 Hell's Angels 1930  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hughes
Cast: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Roy Wilson, Wyndham Standing, Pat Somerset, Thomas Carr
Howard Hughes spent heavily on this film, which paid off with some spectacular aerial footage of zeppelin warfare. The story revolves around two Oxford grads who enter the RAF during World War I. A fellow grad becomes a member of the German air wing and takes part in bombing runs to England. The storyline is weak, but the action makes up for it. This film launched Jean Harlow on her career.
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To Mary-with Love 1936  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Ian Hunter, Claire Trevor, Jean Dixon, Pat Somerset, Helen Brown, Paul Hurst, Franklin Pangborn, Tyler Brooke
The Great Depression affects the marriage of Jack and Mary Wallace (Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy) in this drama based on the lives of many Americans in the early 1930s. Hard to relate to today.
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Up the River 1930 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, William Collier Sr., Steve Pendleton, Morgan Wallace, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Bob Burns, Pat Somerset, Sharon Lynn, Noel Francis, Louise Mackintosh, Ward Bond
In this very early Humphrey Bogart vehicle, he plays wrongly convicted Steve whose plight is noted by St. Louis (Spencer Tracy) and Dannemora Dan (Warren Hymer) who, in turn, escape from prison to help Steve. Spencer Tracy's film debut.
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| 1. Body and Soul (1931)
2. Born Reckless (1930)
3. Death in the Air (1936)
aka: Pilot X
aka: Death in the Sky
4. Hell's Angels (1930)
5. I Cover the War (1937)
6. To Mary-with Love (1936)
7. Up the River (1930)
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