A real-life long distance flying voyage was the motivation behind this somewhat disappointing Warner Brothers action flick that seems to have been meant as one of their 68 minute second features expanded to 90 minutes to repeat the success of some of their recent James Cagney films. Pat O'Brien, great in Warner's crime, action and comedy films of the bottom of the bill, plays a perfectly obnoxious character, a pilot who creates a flying school, neglecting his wife (Beverly Roberts) and turning his best friend (Humphrey Bogart) against him while driving his retired pilot father into serious illness and a possibly early grave.
Slow moving and tiresome at times, there are moments of intensity that may aide in the domesticated drama that has Roberts (who seems to dislike her husband's occupation intensely) returning to him after he has abandoned her to volunteer to work as his secretary. Then, there's the unnecessary comic relief of another pilot (the wasted Ross Alexander) being stalked by Marie Wilson. Sorry, Irma, this role could have excised 10 minutes out of the film and sped it up considerably.
Slow moving and tiresome at times, there are moments of intensity that may aide in the domesticated drama that has Roberts (who seems to dislike her husband's occupation intensely) returning to him after he has abandoned her to volunteer to work as his secretary. Then, there's the unnecessary comic relief of another pilot (the wasted Ross Alexander) being stalked by Marie Wilson. Sorry, Irma, this role could have excised 10 minutes out of the film and sped it up considerably.