Plot: Two brothers (one good and one bad) leave Oxford and join in the British Royal Flying Corps in World War I. One brother falls for Jean Harlow.
Great old fashioned war film with some of the greatest air-to-air combat scenes ever filmed. The plot is standard and the acting often wooden but it held my interest. Most memorable wartime scenes: the beautifully photographed aerial dogfight skirmishes, German zeppelin raids over London, and the red-tinted and two-color Technicolor scenes. Jean Harlow further perks things up as a sexy, but untrustworthy, "good time girl" who utters the immortal words "Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?" I even enjoyed the "Cornball dialogue" and "Melodramatics" as a nice change of pace from constant 21st century cynicism & sophistication. Rating ***
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