Höllenflieger

Originaltitel: Hell's Angels

1930
Passed
2 Std. 7 Min.

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Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon in Höllenflieger (1930)

Die Brüder Monte und Ray verlassen Oxford, um sich dem Royal Flying Corps anzuschließen. Ray liebt Helen; Helen hat eine Affäre mit Monte; bevor sie ihre Mission in Deutschland antreten, lan... Alles lesenDie Brüder Monte und Ray verlassen Oxford, um sich dem Royal Flying Corps anzuschließen. Ray liebt Helen; Helen hat eine Affäre mit Monte; bevor sie ihre Mission in Deutschland antreten, landet sie in den Armen eines weiteren Mannes.Die Brüder Monte und Ray verlassen Oxford, um sich dem Royal Flying Corps anzuschließen. Ray liebt Helen; Helen hat eine Affäre mit Monte; bevor sie ihre Mission in Deutschland antreten, landet sie in den Armen eines weiteren Mannes.

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7,3/10

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Für 1 Oscar nominiert
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

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Wissenswertes
Stunt pilots refused to perform an aerial sequence that director Howard Hughes wanted. Hughes, a noted aviator himself, did his own flying. He got the shot, but he also crashed the plane.

Patzer
At the start of the film in the German beer garden: A customer and a waitress indicate with their hands the number four by holding up four fingers, but in Germany the thumb is used as the first digit so they should really have used the thumb and three fingers.

Zitate
Helen: Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?

Alternative Versionen
The UCLA Film and Television Archive restored the film to its premiere version, which is the version currently available on DVD. In addition to reinstating the 8-minute two-strip Technicolor sequence, tinting and toning was restored to the duel at sunrise, the Zeppelin battle, the night patrol, and Monte and Roy departing for their bombing run. Note that these sequences were intact on earlier prints, but without color or special processing. The film's Intermission title card, along with Entr'acte music and exit music were reinstated as well.

Verbindungen
Edited into Die weiße Schwester (1933)

Soundtracks
Symphony No. 5 Opus 64: 2nd movement
(1888) (uncredited)
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Played during the opening credits and the intermission

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9/10

Head In the Clouds

Howard Hughes produced and directed (with a little help from Edmund Goulding and Howard Hawks) this 1930 aerial extravaganza, whose plot is both hackneyed and largely irrelevant, since one is merely waiting for the heavy melodrama to end so as to feast one's eyes on Jean Harlow and aerial combat scenes. The photography is magnificent, and one gets a kind of God's eye view of reenactments of World War I dogfights. The leading actors, Ben Lyon and James Hall, playing brothers, give such intense performances as to suggest at times that they are not merely emotionally but romantically attached to one another. Those old-fangled airplanes are something to see, as is a gigantic zeppelin, and the combat scenes, full of billowing clouds, the sky full of airplanes that resemble orange crates with wings, buzzing and whistling through the air like flies, are the stuff of dreams, and make this otherwise turgid movie come alive and live in one's mind long after it's over.