Hell's Angels ★★★ 1930 Classic WWI aviation movie is sappy and a bit lumbering, but still an extravagant spectacle with awesome air scenes. Studio owner Hughes fired directors Howard Hawks and Luther Reed, spent an unprecedented $3.8 million, and was ultimately credited as director (although Whale also spent some time in the director's chair). Three years in the making, the venture cost three pilots their lives and lost a bundle. Harlow replaced Swedish Greta Nissen when sound was added and was catapulted into blond bombshelldom as a two-timing dame. And the tinted and two-color scenes—restored in 1989—came well before Ted Turner ever wielded a crayola. 135m/B VHS. Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, James Hall, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke, Roy "Baldy" Wilson, Douglas Gilmore, Jane Winton, Evelyn Hall;
Director:
Howard Hughes;
Writer:
Harry Behn, Howard Estabrook, Joseph Moncure March;
Writer:
Elmer Dyer, Harry Perry, E. Burton Steene, Dewey Wrigley, Gaetano Antonio "Tony" Gaudio;
Cameo:
Hugo Riesenfeld.
