Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9781417019656
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1417019654
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoGermanOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD25933D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 07, 2004
Running Time: 127 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 15, 1930

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
British brothers become world war i pilots and fall for a platinum blonde. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/07/2004 Starring: Ben Lyon James Hall Run time: 135 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Howard Hughes

Amazon.com:
Two bright facets light up Hell's Angels, a 1930s aviation melodrama. One is the extraordinary footage re-creating World War I air battles; the other is 18-year-old Jean Harlow. Both are enough to offset the cornball story and stilted dialogue, the latter added late in production, with the advent of motion-picture sound. The movie, almost three years in the making, with a budget of nearly $4 million--very high for its day--was the obsession of eccentric millionaire director Howard Hughes. Apparently, the authenticity of the dogfight scenes was so important to Hughes that he piloted a plane himself, and ended up breaking a few bones in the process. More shocking, it's said that three pilots lost their lives making the movie. The sequence depicting an epic encounter between the British Royal Flying Corps and a German zeppelin is especially stunning, thanks to the eye-popping use of hand tinting. A bombing raid on a German munitions depot is also remarkably convincing.

The movie's other bombshell, Jean Harlow, fairly jumps off the screen as an upper-class floozy who plays fast and loose with the two leading men, RFC pilots Monte and Roy Rutledge (Ben Lyon and James Hall), one a scoundrel and one a saint. Harlow glows in the film--it's immediately obvious why her appearance here put her on the fast track to Hollywood stardom. Beauty, sex appeal, vulnerability, audacity--whatever the intangible something is that makes a movie star, it's clear Harlow had it, even as a teenager. --Laura Mirsky




Rating: - Old movies are classic!
This is truely a piece of history. Good for any who is a history buff, or a theater one as well.
Highly recommended.

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Rating: - DVD
This is a great old movie I've watched it several times. Good price and good service, would recommend to anyone and will shop again.

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Rating: - A Great Aeronautical Engineer, but No Movie Director
On the plus side of this movie are the extensive air battles with readily available (11 years after the end of WWI)correct aircraft. The zeplin scenes are also terrific. BUT ...

Other than Jean Harlow, the acting is terrible, the plot line sophomoric, and the continuity terrible. Perhaps because is was assembled from different copies of the film, most of the daylight sequences are in black and white, but a dance segment is in color. The night shots all look like a blue filter was ... Read More

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Rating: - What More Can You ask For?
A beautiful woman to die for, airplanes, dog fights and exciting gun play all wrapped into 1 classic pre-censor movie. A classic! This flick makes Top Gun look like the childs play that it is. These pilots, including producer Howard Hughes, actually risked their lives (and sadly 4 lost their life)in the making of this classic. Eat your hearts out Maverick and Iceman. These are the real air studs, not you hacks.

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Rating: - Hell's Angels is A Classic
Made many years before the age of graphic animations replacing live flying scenes, this movie is an air war enthusiast's prized asset.
Howard Hughes, himself a pilot, spared no expense in getting scores of airplanes built and hired former combat pilots of WWI for the flying shots in this movie. One owes a debt of gratitude to those technicians who painstakingly restored a high quality DVD from brittle old reels of the original movie.

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