War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to get Texas to take his flight assignment to Cleveland.
Is it worth your time? If you like old-school, fast-talking movies where everyone sounds like they’ve had too much coffee, you’ll dig this. It’s got that specific 1930s energy—snappy dialogue, guys wearing hats in every single scene, and a plot that moves fast enough to skip the logic parts. If you need slow-burn chara...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Howard Hawks
Robert N. Bradbury
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"Is it worth your time? If you like old-school, fast-talking movies where everyone sounds like they’ve had too much coffee, you’ll dig this. It’s got that specific 1930s energy—snappy dialogue, guys wearing hats in every single scene, and a plot that moves fast enough to skip the logic parts. If you need slow-burn character studies or modern realism, stay away. This is for people who want to see James Cagney be a total jerk who somehow makes you care about him anyway. James Cagney as Dizzy Davis..."
Helen Ericson
Frank Wead, Morrie Ryskind
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