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The Flying Fool
Also known as Loucuras de um Aviador in Brazil
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6720 feet / 63 minutes
Directed by Tay Garnett
Cast: William Boyd [Bill Taylor, ‘The Flying Fool’], Marie Prevost [Pat Riley], Tom O’Brien [Tom Dugan], Russell Gleason [Jimmy Taylor], Kate Bruce [Mrs. Riley, Pat’s mother], Dan Wolheim [the airport manager], Dorothy Ward [Mae Hopper], Earl Burtnett [the orechestra leader], Budd Fine [a mechanic], Al Thompson [a mechanic]
Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Screenplay by Elliott Clawson and Tay Garnett, with dialogue by James Gleason, from a screen story by Elliott Clawson and Tay Garnett. Production supervised by William Sistrom. Production management by John Rohlfs. Art direction by Edward Jewll (Edward C. Jewell). Songs “If I Had My Way” and “I’m That Way About Baby” by George Green (music) and George Waggner (lyrics). Properties by Allan Smiley. Assistant director, Leigh Smith. Cinematography by Arthur Miller (Arthur C. Miller). Sound recording engineers, D.A. Cutler (Denzil A. Cutler), Earl Wolcott (Earl A. Wolcott), and Ben Winkler. Film editor, Claude Berkeley. / © 26 July 1929 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LP549]. Premiered 21 June 1929. Released 23 June 1929. / [?] Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version in six reels (at 5715 feet) by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, in 1929. / Full-sound film.
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Keywords: Aviation: Aeroplane, Aviators, Airplane pilots - Synchronized sound film - Transportation: Airplanes
Listing updated: 17 May 2014.
References: Sweeney-Coming p. 146 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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