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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 776

Flight

1929110 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 115:50
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Frank Capra · Public domain

Synopsis

After a humiliating football mistake, Lefty joins the Marines and finds an unexpected mentor in an experienced aviation sergeant. A training crash damages his confidence, but their friendship keeps him close to flying. When both men fall in love with the same nurse, a mission in Nicaragua tests a bond already complicated by gratitude and jealousy.

Cast

Jack Holt

Ralph Graves

Lila Lee

DirectorsFrank Capra

Behind the scenes

The Marine Corps supplied facilities and personnel for Capra's aviation film. Its military cooperation and dedication shape the presentation of service life and of the American intervention used as the adventure's setting.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Jack Holt — film screenshot (United Artists) · Public domain
Ralph Graves — Unknown author · Public domain
Lila Lee — Edwin Bower Hesser; Picture-Play Magazine , vol. 18, no. 5. July, 1923 https://archive.org/details/pictureplaymagaz18unse/page/n511/mode/2up · Public domain

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