I saw the Howard Hawks film, Ceiling Zero (1936)—or let me say I saw a particular print of it—on YouTube. It was the best I could do since the pic was never released on DVD.
Director Hawks did even better with airline workers in Zero than he did, years later, with cowboys in Red River. He organizes his scenes of active crews admirably, although this is in truth scriptwriter Frank Wead‘s show, for he adapted his own play.
Aviation technology of the Thirties is (to me) fascinating, and here we get that as well as a surprising amount of aircraft destruction. And death. There is no happy ending. Still, I was happy to be seeing the forgotten Ceiling Zero.
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