Flight (1929)




Ralph Graves, Jack Holt - Flight




The first flying talkie, and one of the best of the air pictures. A tale of marine corps fliers in Florida and Nicaragua, with a romance involving Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Lila Lee. Holt is fine as a hardboiled flier, but honors go to Harold Goodwin, as a young airman. The air shots are grand, and credit goes to Frank Capra for direction and dialogue.

Photoplay December 1929



Vintage magazines

Photoplay , December 1929
Photoplay , December 1929

Books with substantial mentioning of Flight

Eric Smoodin
Regarding Frank Capra, Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960
Durham and London, 2004

Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy
The Complete Films of Frank Capra
New York - Secaucus, NJ, 1992

Articles with substantial mentioning of Flight

William K. Everson, Rediscovery, in: Films in Review, vol. 29, 1978 pp. 555-558