Flying High

There was considerable pressure from the Hays Office to remove the examination scene from the movie, but MGM held firm, claiming they paid $100,000 for the rights to the play just for that particular scene. Eventually some aspects of that scene was removed when some exhibitors rejected the film. The TCM print contains the scene, but it may be the abbreviated version.

Tom Kennedy is menacing Bert Lahr because he threw an oil-soaked hat in his face. Pat O'Brien intervenes and punches oil-smudged Tom Kennedy in the stomach. Pat's cheeks are clean. Cut to Tom doubling over. Cut back to Pat with an oil smudge on his right cheek, even though Tom never touched him. Bert enters the shot offering Pat a hammer. Pat says "That's all right." Cut to long shot of Tom retreating and Pat wiping his face. No smudge in next close-up. So it appears there was more to the fight, but it was edited out.

The credits appear as printed on the side of a dirigible.

Edited into Red-Headed Woman (1932)