A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
Slim Summerville
- 'Slim' McCune
- (as 'Slim' Summerville)
Thomas Carrigan
- 'Sleepy' Collins
- (as Tom Carrigan)
Frank Beal
- Passenger to Kansas City
- (uncredited)
Ward Bond
- Joe Barnes
- (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
- Medical Examiner
- (uncredited)
Edmund Burns
- Radio Announcer
- (uncredited)
Alene Carroll
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Enrico Caruso Jr.
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaFirst movie to feature an airplane-flying-through-a-hangar stunt, performed by stunt pilot Paul Mantz.
- Quotes
Duke Talbot: I'da made that flight to Paris but Lindy beat me to it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Beata Virgo Viscera (2018)
- SoundtracksSilent Night
(uncredited)
Written by Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber
Sung by Gloria Stuart and the children on Christmas Eve
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Air Mail review
As Christmas storms gather, the under-pressure manager of an air mail depot is forced to accept a selfish, boastful foe as one of his new pilots. Ralph Bellamy makes a bland and colourless leading man in a movie that suffers from comparison with Only Angels Have Wings, which is based on the same story by Frank Wead and Dale Van Every. Pat O'Brien doesn't fare much better - he was never particularly convincing in roles that called upon him to be cocky and arrogant - and only Lilian Bond as the unhappy wife of a pilot who falls for O'Brien's dubious charms makes a positive impression, although there is something to be said for Slim Summerville's unerring aim with chewing tobacco and a spittoon (ptooh! ding!!). It starts strongly with an impressive air crash and some insane aerial acrobatics in one of those flimsy-looking biplanes, but there's little else of interest.
- JoeytheBrit
- Apr 17, 2020
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- Budget
- $305,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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