Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels

Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels
by Edmund Goulding, Howard Hughes, James Whale

Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels
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Actor: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival
Director: Edmund Goulding, Howard Hughes, James Whale
Brand: Universal
Producer: Howard Hughes
Writer: Harry Behn
Writer: Howard Estabrook
Writer: Joseph Moncure March
Writer: Marshall Neilan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels

Movie Review: Howard Hughes Hells Angels
Summary: 2 Stars

ONE MUST REMEMBER THAT THIS MOVIE WAS MADE WHEN MOVIES WERE STILL YOUNG.
ACTION IS SLOW, BUT AERIAL COMBAT IS QUITE GOOD.

Summary of Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels

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
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 Jean Harlow. 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 (Ben Lyon and James Hall), 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

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