The Dawn Patrol (1930)

Directed by

Howard Hawks

Genre

drama film, action film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

World War I flyers lead dangerous patrol missions. They face the constant threat of death and the strain of sending young pilots into battle.

tensemelancholicbleakgrittysomberunsettlingslow-burnvisceral

What happens

The Dawn Patrol is a 1930 American pre-Code World War I film starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was directed by Howard Hawks, a former World War I flight instructor, who even flew in the film as a German pilot in an uncredited role. The Dawn Patrol won the Academy Award for Best Story for John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service. It was subsequently remade in 1938 with the same title, and the original was then renamed Flight Commander and released later as part of the Warner Bros. film catalog. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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