Warbird Information Exchange

A couple of weeks ago I had the television on Turner Classic Movies on a weekday morning for just a few minutes before leaving for work. They were running some kind of aviation oriented film from the 1930s that featured a Boeing Model 100 (F4B/P12). It seemed to be a typical guy down on his luck striving to make good sort of plot. I swear one of the stars was Leslie Howard the British actor but can't be sure. Can't find a way to look back on the schedule on the TCM site. Anyone have any idea on the name of this film?

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.

Could it have been Flight From Glory?

http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.html? ... 2012-10-11
(You can search backwards through the TCM schedule but you kind of have to go about it in a roundabout way)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_From_Glory

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028880/
(Notice that a comment on the IMDB page refers to actor Douglas Walton as a "poor man's Leslie Howard")

I watched it. Just over an hour long. typical melodrama with not a lot of really good flying scenes. . The Boeing Model 100 was cool though!
Jerry

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YEP! 'Flight From Glory' by RKO 1937, starred Chester Morris and Van Heflin, the Boeing 100 was probably Frank Tallmans since I think he or Paul Mantz bought Hughes' model 100 and Hughes owned RKO Studios (have NO idea why it was called Radio Keith Orpheum) and if it looks familiar, it was almost scene for scene the set piece for 'Only Angels Have Wings' from 1939. Except it was shot in the wilds of the distant Simi Valley and OAHW was mostly soundstage and models.

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RKO was formed in 1928 from a merger of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and Radio Corporation of American (RCA), thus R(adio) K(eith) O(rpheum).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO_Pictures

JFS,
Thanks! It's like Yogi Berra said, 'you can observe a lot by just watching'!!!!!

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Thanks everyone. I really liked the "poor man's Leslie Howard" reference!

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.