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The Lost Squadron
The Lost Squadron is a 1932 American pre-Code drama, action, film starring Richard Dix, Mary Astor, and Robert Armstrong, with Erich von Stroheim and Joel McCrea in supporting roles, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the novel The Lost Squadron (1932) by Dick Grace, the film is about three World War I pilots who find jobs after the war as Hollywood stunt fliers.
The Lost Squadron was the first RKO production to carry the screen credit "Executive Producer, David O. Selznick".
Pilots Captain "Gibby" Gibson and his close friend "Red" spend the last hours of World War I in battle in the air. They then join fellow pilot and comrade "Woody" Curwood and their mechanic Fritz in a promise to stick together, a toast and a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne", before returning home to an uncertain future.
Gibby's ambitious actress girlfriend Follette Marsh has a new boyfriend, one who can do more for her career. Good-natured Red decides not to take back his old job, now held by a married man with a new baby. Woody is penniless, swindled by his embezzling business partner.
Years later, Gibby, Red and Fritz ride a boxcar to Hollywood to look for Woody and find work in lean times. Outside a movie premiere, they spot a prosperous Woody, who is working as a stunt flier. He offers them well-paying jobs working for tyrannical director Arthur von Furst, who is married to Follette. Woody tells Gibby that he beats her. Woody introduces his three comrades-in-arms to his sister, "the Pest". She worries constantly about him: Von Furst utilizes dangerously worn-out aircraft, and Woody drinks a lot. She persuades all of them to give up stunt flying. They toast to it. However, they soon break their promise.
Both Gibby and Red are attracted to Pest. When he barely survives a crash, Gibby misinterprets her concern for him as love. Red impulsively asks the Pest to marry him. She agrees, and Gibby accepts the situation with grace.
Von Furst sees that his wife still has strong feelings for Gibby. He sabotages the aircraft Gibby is to fly for a dangerous stunt, secretly applying acid to some control wires, not only out of jealousy but also to add to the realism of his film. However, Woody decides to do the stunt in Gibby's place. Red sees von Furst tampering with the wires and alerts Gibby. Gibby takes off in another aircraft and catches up to Woody, but cannot make himself understood over the roar of their engines. The cable breaks, and Woody crashes and is killed.
Meanwhile, Red takes von Furst captive at gunpoint, promising to kill him if Woody dies. That night, after Woody's body is taken away, Gibby telephones the police to say that the accident he reported earlier may be a murder, but Red interrupts him. Gibby realizes Red has taken his gun and pursues him up the stairs to the office where Red has tied up von Furst. Gibby demands a written confession for the authorities. Von Furst knocks the lamp off the desk and tries to escape. In the struggle, Gibby drops the gun, and Red shoots and kills von Furst.
The Lost Squadron
The Lost Squadron is a 1932 American pre-Code drama, action, film starring Richard Dix, Mary Astor, and Robert Armstrong, with Erich von Stroheim and Joel McCrea in supporting roles, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the novel The Lost Squadron (1932) by Dick Grace, the film is about three World War I pilots who find jobs after the war as Hollywood stunt fliers.
The Lost Squadron was the first RKO production to carry the screen credit "Executive Producer, David O. Selznick".
Pilots Captain "Gibby" Gibson and his close friend "Red" spend the last hours of World War I in battle in the air. They then join fellow pilot and comrade "Woody" Curwood and their mechanic Fritz in a promise to stick together, a toast and a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne", before returning home to an uncertain future.
Gibby's ambitious actress girlfriend Follette Marsh has a new boyfriend, one who can do more for her career. Good-natured Red decides not to take back his old job, now held by a married man with a new baby. Woody is penniless, swindled by his embezzling business partner.
Years later, Gibby, Red and Fritz ride a boxcar to Hollywood to look for Woody and find work in lean times. Outside a movie premiere, they spot a prosperous Woody, who is working as a stunt flier. He offers them well-paying jobs working for tyrannical director Arthur von Furst, who is married to Follette. Woody tells Gibby that he beats her. Woody introduces his three comrades-in-arms to his sister, "the Pest". She worries constantly about him: Von Furst utilizes dangerously worn-out aircraft, and Woody drinks a lot. She persuades all of them to give up stunt flying. They toast to it. However, they soon break their promise.
Both Gibby and Red are attracted to Pest. When he barely survives a crash, Gibby misinterprets her concern for him as love. Red impulsively asks the Pest to marry him. She agrees, and Gibby accepts the situation with grace.
Von Furst sees that his wife still has strong feelings for Gibby. He sabotages the aircraft Gibby is to fly for a dangerous stunt, secretly applying acid to some control wires, not only out of jealousy but also to add to the realism of his film. However, Woody decides to do the stunt in Gibby's place. Red sees von Furst tampering with the wires and alerts Gibby. Gibby takes off in another aircraft and catches up to Woody, but cannot make himself understood over the roar of their engines. The cable breaks, and Woody crashes and is killed.
Meanwhile, Red takes von Furst captive at gunpoint, promising to kill him if Woody dies. That night, after Woody's body is taken away, Gibby telephones the police to say that the accident he reported earlier may be a murder, but Red interrupts him. Gibby realizes Red has taken his gun and pursues him up the stairs to the office where Red has tied up von Furst. Gibby demands a written confession for the authorities. Von Furst knocks the lamp off the desk and tries to escape. In the struggle, Gibby drops the gun, and Red shoots and kills von Furst.