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Border Flight (1936)

Border Flight poster
Directed by
Otho Lovering
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
58 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

U.S. Coast Guard pilots in San Diego chase a gang of smugglers from the air. The story follows their dangerous missions and personal conflicts.

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What happens

Border Flight is a 1936 American aviation drama film directed by Otho Lovering and written by Stuart Anthony, Arthur J. Beckhard and Ewing Scott. The film stars Frances Farmer, John Howard, Roscoe Karns, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers and Samuel S. Hinds. Border Flight was based on the exploits of the US Coast Guard pilots, based in San Diego. In Aviation in the Cinema (1985), aviation film historian Stephen Pendo considered Border Flight, a drama that "detailed the aerial activities of the United States Coast Guard fighting a gang of smugglers." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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