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Flight Angels is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lewis Seiler released in USA on 18 may 1940 with Virginia Bruce

Flight Angels (1940)

Flight Angels
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Released in USA 18 may 1940
Length 1h14
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating56% 2.807552.807552.807552.807552.80755

Flight Angels is a 1940 aviation film directed by Lewis Seiler from an original story by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay. It starred Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris and Ralph Bellamy as members of a fictional airline, flying Douglas DST airliners. The basic premise of the film to accurately describe the training and operational conditions of an airline, is faithfully depicted as stewardess and pilots go through the daily routine of flying in the 1940s.

Synopsis

Although "ace" commercial airline pilot, Chick Faber (Dennis Morgan) is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves (Ralph Bellamy) when a flight physical reveals that his eyesight is failing. Aided by stewardess Mary Norvell (Virginia Bruce) and her friend, Nan Hudson (Jane Wyman), Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for stewardesses. While he remains at the airline, along with engineer, Artie Dixon (Wayne Morris), he continues work on the design of a secret research aircraft, he calls the "stratosphere ship" that will revolutionize commercial aviation by flying faster and higher than any current type.

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