Hells Angels 1930

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Hells Angels (1930) Epic drama set during the First World War, produced at great cost by Howard Hughes and featuring the most celebrated aerial combat sequences of the period. Monte Rutledge (Ben Lyon), his brother Roy (James Hall) and their German friend Karl (John Darrow) are friends at Oxford who find themselves fighting on opposite sides at the outbreak of the Great War. Monte and Roy join the fledgling Royal Flying Corps, while Karl does his best to limit the damage to London from the Zeppelin bombing raids he commands. Monte and Roy find that their relationship is strained by their rivalry over the love of Helen (Jean Harlow), and by Roy's cowardice when it comes to the dangerous mission they are assigned. But when the two brothers find themselves shot down over German lines, Roy has to do the unthinkable to stop a shell-shocked Monte from revealing vital information to their German captors. From . Two bright facets light up Hell's Angels, a 1930s aviation melodrama. One is the extraordinary footage re-creating World War I air battles the other is 18-year-old . Both are enough to offset the cornball story and stilted dialogue, the latter added late in production, with the advent of motion-picture sound. The movie, almost three years in the making, with a budget of nearly 4 million--very high for its day--was the obsession of eccentric millionaire director Howard Hughes. Apparently, the authenticity of the dogfight scenes was so important to Hughes that he piloted a plane himself, and ended up breaking a few bones in the process. More shocking, it's said that three pilots lost their lives making the movie. The sequence depicting an epic encounter between the British Royal Flying Corps and a German zeppelin is especially stunning, thanks to the eye-popping use of hand tinting. A bombing raid on a German munitions depot is also remarkably convincing. The movie's other bombshell, Jean Harlow, fairly jumps off the screen as an upper-class floozy who plays fast and loose with the two leading men, RFC pilots Monte and Roy Rutledge ( and ), one a scoundrel and one a saint. Harlow glows in the film--it's immediately obvious why her appearance here put her on the fast track to Hollywood stardom. Beauty, sex appeal, vulnerability, audacity--whatever the intangible something is that makes a movie star, it's clear Harlow had it, even as a teenager. --Laura Mirsky Synopsis Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when war breaks out. The brothers couldn't be anymore different, but both end up volunteering for the same risky assignment. With a series of fighters bearing down on them, can the two brothers make it through the mission Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 - 2024 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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