Wings

Youth, hitting the clouds! Laughing at danger! Fighting, loving, dodging death! That's
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 24 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 8, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1927
  • Label: Paramount Catalog

Performers, Cast and Crew:

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Directed by
Edited by

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1927 - Best Engineering Effects: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1927 - Best Picture: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh93%

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Total Count: 41

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 3,497
[I]t represents an astounding level of achievement in Hollywood production before sound crashed in and introduced a new ponderousness to the screen.
Sight and Sound
Nov 1, 2012
Long touted as a classic by cinema historians, and justifying almost every adjectival extravagance. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006
Rating: 3/5 -- The Academy Award-winning flying sequences still hold their own against today's CGI. Full Review
Sky Cinema
Feb 20, 2019
Director William Wellman drew on his own WWI French Foreign Legion aviator combat experience, including being shot down by anti-aircraft fire, to dramatize this story of two American fighter pilots, Jack Powell and David Armstrong. . . Full Review
KDHX (St. Louis)
Aug 28, 2017
There not being so much of Clara Bow in the picture, or a straining for her to turn on that 'it' personality, she gives an all around corking performance. Full Review
Variety
Feb 19, 2008
...Still exciting...
Entertainment Weekly
Dec 19, 2003
Wings is nearly two and-a-half hours long, and both its length and its emphasis on spectacle feel archetypal, the first triumph (of many) of scale over story in awards history. Full Review
1More Film Blog
Feb 4, 2014

Product Description:

WINGS was the first film ever made that graphically captured the emotional combination of freedom and fear of flying in combat. Director William Wellman drew on his years in an elite flying squadron and pushed the cinematic technology of the day to its limit when he created this film's timeless aerial sequences. The story revolves around two young men, of different classes, who have both fallen for the same young woman before they head off to combat. Richard Arlen and Charles Rogers are well paired as they fight it out over both Clara Bow and enemy soil, and Gary Cooper makes a memorable cameo appearance, which launched his career. The emotional current created by the three stars is as intense as the film's special effects, and the result adequately reflects the lasting brutality of war. This drama won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture.

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