The Dawn Patrol
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Product Description
Basil Rathbone is outstanding as the Squadron Commander. Errol Flynn and David Niven star as roustabout French Corp fighter pilots who come face-to-face with the harsh realities of war.
Edmund Goulding's direction is proficient, if also impersonal.
So the remake has the edge as smooth entertainment, though not the original's raw power (or Griffith veteran Richard Barthelmess's tender, anguished performance as Courtney). --Richard T. Jameson The original is rarely shown because, despite direction by Howard Hawks, it suffers from the stiffness and some overly declamatory acting characteristic of the early talkie era. The job is soul-killing for the commandants and deadly for their comrades and friends. Ideally, Warner Video should have issued both films, and in one box. made eight years apart, in 1930 and 1938. The Dawn Patrol is a beautiful title for two very good movies Warner Bros. And the best parts of the 1938 version are the original film: all the aerial footage--bombings, crashes, breathtaking low-level flying, and wobbly takeoffs in the glow of early morning--is Hawks's. Make that former friends.
It's the later, Errol Flynn version of The Dawn Patrol that's won DVD release. Each officer in turn has to keep sending pilots out on dangerous, often insane missions in flimsy, patched-up planes, then pray that even half get back alive. Perhaps more to the point, the remake's cast has greater marquee value: Flynn and David Niven as hotshots Courtney and Scott; Basil Rathbone as Major Brand, the tortured commander whom Flynn will be obliged to succeed; Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, and Barry Fitzgerald as staff officers and noncoms. Both tell the same World War I story (which won a 1930 Academy Award for John Monk Saunders), about a succession of flight commanders at a British air base in France.
Product Info
- Actor
- Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Hal Le Roy, Eddie Foy Jr., June Allyson
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.33:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Brand
- Warner Brothers
- Creator
- Cyrus Wood, Dan Totheroh, Ed Earl Repp, Eddie Forman
- Director
- Bobby Connolly, Edmund Goulding, Robert Clampett, Roy Mack
- EAN
- 0012569796249
- EAN List
- EANListElement: 0012569796249
- Feature
- Errol Flynn and David Niven star as roustabout French Corp fighter pilots who come face-to-face with the harsh realities of war. Basil Rathbone is outstanding as the Squadron Commander.Running Time: 103 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR Age: 012569796249 UPC: 012569796249 Manufacturer No: 79624
- Format
- Black & White, Subtitled, NTSC, Full Screen
- Label
- Warner Home Video
- Manufacturer
- Warner Home Video
- Model
- 79624
- MPN
- 012569796249
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Original Release Date
- 1938-12-24
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Part Number
- 012569796249
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Warner Home Video
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2007-03-27
- Running Time
- 103
- SKU
- 344942
- Studio
- Warner Home Video
- Theatrical Release Date
- 1938-12-24
- Title
- The Dawn Patrol
- UPC
- 012569796249
- UPC List
- UPCListElement: 012569796249
- ASIN
- B000M2E30O
- Sales Rank
- 26171
