Men Against the Sky (1940)

Directed by

Leslie Goodwins

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Test pilots risk their lives to push aircraft development before World War II. The film follows the pilots and the woman caught between them as they face technical challenges and personal rivalries.

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What happens

Men Against the Sky is a 1940 drama starring Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe and Wendy Barrie. Directed by Leslie Goodwins, it is based on a story by John Twist about the challenges of aircraft development and the dangers of test piloting in the period before World War II. The screenplay is by novelist Nathanael West. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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