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The Dawn Patrol (1938) 7.7
British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war. Director:Edmund Goulding |
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Major Brand
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Sgt. Watkins
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In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip. Written by &view=simple&sort=alpha">Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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suicide mission | great war | fighter pilot | burning airplane | uniform |Taglines:
Roaring into each blood-red dawn . . . fighting for women they had never seen . . . for love they might never know ! ! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
24 December 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Patrulha da Alvorada See more »Filming Locations:
Calabasas, California, USACompany Credits
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Phipps: That's all, gentlemen.
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(1916) (uncredited)
Music by Raymond Hubbell
Lyrics by John Golden
Played on the Grammaphone
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Trivia
Maj. Brand, played by Basil Rathbone, is seen wearing the ribbon for the Military Cross. Rathbone himself was awarded this medal for bravery during the First World War as a second lieutenant. Capt. Courtney (Errol Flynn) and later Lt. Scott (David Niven) are also seen with ribbons, but Flynn and Niven were too young to serve in the war. Niven attended Sandhurst Military Academy and then served for two years on Malta. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he returned to England and re-joined the army. Flynn's weak heart got him a 4-F deferment and he never served during the war, a fact he always said he regretted. See more »Goofs
When Captain Courtney is rescued, he jumps on the wing and hangs onto the strut. When the actual aircraft takes off, the dummy used is much further forward on the wing than Captain Courtney was. See more »Quotes
Phipps: [Opens package dropped by enemy plane] It's his helmet and goggles. It means a very gallant gentleman died this afternoon. And for what? What have all these deaths accomplished? So many fine chaps have died in this war and are going to die in future wars.[pause]
Phipps: That's all, gentlemen.
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Soundtracks
Poor Butterfly(1916) (uncredited)
Music by Raymond Hubbell
Lyrics by John Golden
Played on the Grammaphone
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Warner Brothers more than most of the other major studios had a habit of simply recycling the old plots of their films and repackaging them. A good example would be the boxing film Kid Galahad remade a few years later as The Wagons Roll at Night with the setting now changed to a circus. But in this case we didn't get a remake of The Dawn Patrol, we got practically a carbon copy.
I finally saw the original The Dawn Patrol that was made in 1930 by Howard Hawks and found that this film was practically a word for word remake of the Hawks classic. Of course it was no surprise to learn that all the aviation sequences were just lifted bodily from the first film, but probably more than that was done. Several long-shots looked exactly the same.
In a way this might have worked out because director Edmund Goulding who was not known for action films could concentrate on the actors and he got very good performances out of Errol Flynn, David Niven, and Basil Rathbone who step into the parts that Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Neil Hamilton did the first time around.
Still after seeing first one version, than the other, one might be complaining of double vision at that.