Movie
Wings
Overview
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
Details
- Release date
- 1927-08-12
- Runtime
- 144 min
- Genres
- Drama, Action, War, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Clara Bow as Mary Preston
- Charles 'Buddy' Rogers as Jack Powell
- Richard Arlen as David Armstrong
- Jobyna Ralston as Sylvia Lewis
- El Brendel as Herman Schwimpf
- Richard Tucker as Air Commander
- Gary Cooper as Cadet White
- Gunboat Smith as The Sergeant
- Henry B. Walthall as Mr. Armstrong
- Roscoe Karns as Lieutenant Cameron
- Julia Swayne Gordon as Mrs. Armstrong
- Arlette Marchal as Celeste
Crew
- William A. Wellman - Director
- Hope Loring - Screenplay
- Louis D. Lighton - Screenplay
- John Monk Saunders - Story
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