Drama · Action · War · Romance
American
1927 · Directed by William A. Wellman · 144 min
Two small-town young men, one rich and one not, both competing for the same girl, join the US Air Service as America enters the First World War. A romance, a friendship story and a spectacle of early aerial combat, made by a director who had flown in the war himself.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining Hollywood war spectacle of the late silent era, and the film that started the Academy Award for Best Picture. It set the template for the aerial combat film.
Watch with intention
Watch it as two films in one: a small-town comedy-romance, and a pioneering experiment in putting an audience inside a cockpit.
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