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Men with Wings (1938)

Men with Wings (1938)

Drama

AMERICA'S GREATEST HEROES!

Release Date: 1938, July 16
Directors: William A. Wellman
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Russell Hicks, Al Hill, Paul Kruger, Charles Williams, Evelyn Keyes, Billy Cook, Chuck Hamilton, David Newell, Lee Phelps, Billy Bletcher, Garry Owen, Franklin Parker

Overview:

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.

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