Air Mail (1932)
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The air-mail pilots who fly from a small airport in the Rocky Mountains are determined but not paid well, and there are occasional fatal crashes. It's a tradition of long standing that when this happens, chief pilot Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy) makes the next flight himself. Daredevil Duke Talbot (Pat O'Brien) is hired; he starts an affair with Irene Wilkins (Lilian Bond), wife of pilot Dizzy (Russell Hopton). A fierce snowstorm rages when Dizzy next takes off. He crashes and is killed, so Mike makes the next flight. He crashes in an inaccessible valley, but survives. Although Duke has now run off with Irene, when he hears about Mike's crash, he decides to fly to the rescue. ~ Bill Warren, Rovi
- Starring:
- Pat O'Brien, Ralph Bellamy, (more)
- Director(s):
- John Ford
Synopsis of Air Mail
The air-mail pilots who fly from a small airport in the Rocky Mountains are determined but not paid well, and there are occasional fatal crashes. It's a tradition of long standing that when this happens, chief pilot Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy) makes the next flight himself. Daredevil Duke Talbot (Pat O'Brien) is hired; he starts an affair with Irene Wilkins (Lilian Bond), wife of pilot Dizzy (Russell Hopton). A fierce snowstorm rages when Dizzy next takes off. He crashes and is killed, so Mike makes the next flight. He crashes in an inaccessible valley, but survives. Although Duke has now run off with Irene, when he hears about Mike's crash, he decides to fly to the rescue. ~ Bill Warren, Rovi
Complete Cast of Air Mail
- Pat O'Brien - Duke Talbot
- Russell Hopton - "Dizzy" Wilkins
- Gloria Stuart - Ruth Barnes
- Frank Albertson - Tommy Bogan
- Thomas Carrigan - Sleepy Collins
- David Landau - "Pop"
- Louise Mackintosh - Passenger
- Francis Ford - Passenger
- Jack Pennick
- Beth Milton - Plane Attendant
- William Robert Daly - "Tex" Lane
- Ralph Bellamy - Mike Miller
- George "Slim" Summerville - Slim McClune
- Lillian Bond - Irene Wilkins
- Leslie Fenton - Tony Dressler
- Hans Furberg - "Heinie" Kramer
- Frank Beal - Passenger
- Katherine Perry - Passenger Plane Pilot
- Edmund Burns - Radio Announcer
- Jim Thorpe - Indian
- Lew Kelly - Drunkard
- James Donlan - Passenger
- Director(s):
- John Ford
- Writer(s):
- Dale Van Every, Frank Wead
- Producer(s):
- Carl Laemmle, Jr.
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