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Constant Chatter Shopping Center - Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival
Directed By: Edmund Goulding, Howard Hughes, James Whale
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9781417019656
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 1417019654
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-12-07
Running Time: 127
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Editorial Reviews:
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British brothers become world war i pilots and fall for a platinum blonde. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/07/2004 Starring: Ben Lyon James Hall Run time: 135 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Howard Hughes
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Summary: Old movies are classic!
Comment: This is truely a piece of history. Good for any who is a history buff, or a theater one as well.
Highly recommended.
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Summary: DVD
Comment: This is a great old movie I've watched it several times. Good price and good service, would recommend to anyone and will shop again.
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Summary: A Great Aeronautical Engineer, but No Movie Director
Comment: On the plus side of this movie are the extensive air battles with readily available (11 years after the end of WWI)correct aircraft. The zeplin scenes are also terrific. BUT ...
Other than Jean Harlow, the acting is terrible, the plot line sophomoric, and the continuity terrible. Perhaps because is was assembled from different copies of the film, most of the daylight sequences are in black and white, but a dance segment is in color. The night shots all look like a blue filter was placed over the lens.
This appears to have been a transition film between Silents and Talkies. Dialogue is used in most of it, but scenes have the choppy transitions of a silent film. New scenes are often introduced with a silent movie style introduction in Old English, illumunated text.
I bought "Dawn Patrol" at the same time and there is no comparison between the two. Dawn Patrol features a well written script and excellent actors. "Hell's Angels" serves as an example of what happens when those two essential ingredients are missing. No amount of exciting hardware can overcome that lack.
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Summary: What More Can You ask For?
Comment: A beautiful woman to die for, airplanes, dog fights and exciting gun play all wrapped into 1 classic pre-censor movie. A classic! This flick makes Top Gun look like the childs play that it is. These pilots, including producer Howard Hughes, actually risked their lives (and sadly 4 lost their life)in the making of this classic. Eat your hearts out Maverick and Iceman. These are the real air studs, not you hacks.
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Summary: Hell's Angels is A Classic
Comment: Made many years before the age of graphic animations replacing live flying scenes, this movie is an air war enthusiast's prized asset.
Howard Hughes, himself a pilot, spared no expense in getting scores of airplanes built and hired former combat pilots of WWI for the flying shots in this movie. One owes a debt of gratitude to those technicians who painstakingly restored a high quality DVD from brittle old reels of the original movie.
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