Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.
Joe King
- Mr. Pierson
- (as Joseph King)
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Storyline
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- TriviaHenry B. Walthall collapsed on the set while filming and died shortly thereafter. The script of the unfinished film was rewritten so that his character would die off-screen, a heart condition having already been established in a previously filmed scene.
- GoofsThe film begins on the day that Dave Logan (Pat O'Brien) arrives back in New York by ship which was also the same day that Charles Lindburgh had a ticket tape parade following his May, 1927 nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris which took place on June 14, 1927. Later that same day, Logan quits his job with James Horn & Co. Importers in order to go back to aviation by starting an airline flying between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. which he established in conjunction with the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia... which had taken place the year before, running from May 31 to November 30, 1926.
- Quotes
Hap Stuart: [Offscreen] Watta yuh do when the wings fall off?
Dave Logan: [Not knowing who's talking to him] Take a train, sucker.
- ConnectionsEdited into Fly Away Baby (1937)
- SoundtracksThe Stars and Stripes Forever
(1896) (uncredited)
Written by John Philip Sousa
Played at the ceremony before the China Clipper's initial Pacific flight
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Enjoyable flight movie
This is basically a thinly disguised bio of Juan Trippe and his early days after founding Pan American Airways. Yet the credits at the beginning disclaim any attachment to a true life story. Well what can you say? Hollywood's been putting those disclaimers on movies since the beginning of films. But the public can, and always does, figure it out. An aviation buff will have a field day pointing out some of the planes that appear in this movie,... a Fokker Trimotor and much stock newsreel footage of the actual Martin Flying Boat "China Clipper" to name a few. The Martin China Clippers of which there were about 4 or 5 ever built flew those pioneering trips to the Orient and an awful long journey it was. This movie re-creates those pioneering days with some great stock footage & some darn good acting. Warners did a number of these aviation flicks in the 30s, 'Devil Dogs of the Air' starring James Cagney comes to mind. But I enjoyed Pat O'Brien(with his wonderful excellerated speech as usual), Humphrey Bogart(marvelous and before all those classics), Marie Wilson, Ross Alexander, Henry B Walthall and silent star Kenneth Harlan who appears early in the film as an airline inspector.
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- Titán del aire
- Filming locations
- Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA(interior of factory)
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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