Bobby has been in the air service but has never got off the ground. He is induced to take the place of an American "ace" at a home party.


The first time I encountered Back from the Front it was a battered 16 mm print projected against a brick loft wall, the sprockets chattering like teeth in winter. What unfolded was not merely a gag-reel of biplane buffoonery but a lacquered snapshot of jazz-age anxiety—an era when valor came bottled in patent-leather ...

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" The first time I encountered Back from the Front it was a battered 16 mm print projected against a brick loft wall, the sprockets chattering like teeth in winter. What unfolded was not merely a gag-reel of biplane buffoonery but a lacquered snapshot of jazz-age anxiety—an era when valor came bottled in patent-leather boots and the word hero was auctioned to the highest bidder. Donald Keith’s Bobby is the quintessential hollow man: a uniform without trajectory. Note how cinematographer William ..."
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