An overprotective sister doesn't want her brother learning how to fly while a career pilot insists that his younger brother go into the profession. The instructor is Randolph Scott, a one time great pilot who walked off the job and created a school. According to sister Margaret Lindsay, brother George Ernest is far too young to fly, but she seems like he'll never be old enough to do what he wants as long as she has any influence. Scott's rival, Preston Foster, has badgers his brother Robert Shaw into learning how to fly, and in Shaw's case he's petrified unlike Ernest.
This film is exciting for one sequence in which Ernest and Scott are flying over some very dangerous looking mountain ranges, and even if this is stock footage it's truly memorable. The angles of the camera that filmed those sequences makes the mountains look truly impassable, and in a two seater tin can style plane, nail biting. Their being stranded creates more tension.
Of course a romance is insinuated between Lindsay and Scott, and while she means well she's is very controlling. Victor Sen Yung (aka #2 son Jimmy Chan) has some comic bits ("One Wing Low" describing Shaw's flight), and Jane Darwell has a bit part as well. Kane Richmond, Maxie Rosenbloom and Edward Gargan add atmosphere. A satisfying little action picture, where Scott simply through the aspect of his charm makes it all worth while.
This film is exciting for one sequence in which Ernest and Scott are flying over some very dangerous looking mountain ranges, and even if this is stock footage it's truly memorable. The angles of the camera that filmed those sequences makes the mountains look truly impassable, and in a two seater tin can style plane, nail biting. Their being stranded creates more tension.
Of course a romance is insinuated between Lindsay and Scott, and while she means well she's is very controlling. Victor Sen Yung (aka #2 son Jimmy Chan) has some comic bits ("One Wing Low" describing Shaw's flight), and Jane Darwell has a bit part as well. Kane Richmond, Maxie Rosenbloom and Edward Gargan add atmosphere. A satisfying little action picture, where Scott simply through the aspect of his charm makes it all worth while.