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24 paź 2017 · Thrilling aerial combat scenes highlight director William Wellman's silent WWI saga, winner of the first Best Picture Academy Award. Richard Arlen and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are small-town best friends, in love with the same girl, who enlist in the Army Air Corps to fight in Europe.
Wings was absolutely the most awful movie I've watched in a long time. I can't believe it is even commercially available. We left half way because it was just so bad.
Wings (1927) An epic WWI movie that uses all the classic approaches to a war film and has a lot of great battle footage. It's a tale of rivalry over a girl, of fighting for country (and against the Germans), and of facing death.
Wings: Directed by Olga Lopato, Melanie Simka. With Antonina Berezka, Jeff Berg, Gregg Berger, David Boat. A few weeks before a big airshow, Ace gets his acceptance letter to take part in the competition to become the next champion.
With World War I afoot, David Armstrong (Richard Arlen) and Jack Powell (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) join the military with an eye toward flying American fighter planes. They leave behind Mary Preston...
Wings, the first movie to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and the only silent film to win, is still remarkably enjoyable to watch. The story is a fairly conventional one--two flyboys, both in love with the same girl, go off to fight World War I, and male bonding and heartbreak ensue.
Full of innovative flying scenes, dogfights, strung-out love triangles, and set against the backdrop of World War I, Wings still holds up well nearly a century later. Full Review | Jun 27, 2023
