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The Aviator (1929)

The Aviator poster
Directed by
Roy Del Ruth
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man who knows nothing about flying is forced to pretend he is a famous aviator. He gets into comic situations as he tries to keep up the lie.

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What happens

The Aviator is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) Pre-Code Vitaphone comedy film produced and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Directed by Roy Del Ruth, the film was based on the play of the same name by James Montgomery and stars Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. The Aviator is similar to the silent comedy The Hottentot (1922), where a hapless individual has to pretend to be a famous steeplehorse jockey. The Aviator today is considered a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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