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Wings

Cast

Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston View All

Crew

Louis D. Lighton (Screenplay), William A. Wellman (Director), John Monk Saunders (Writer), Hope Loring (Screenplay) View All

Release: Aug. 12th, 1927

Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away. Cinema's first ever gay kiss?

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Citizen Rules
These Road show pictures often came with little extras and in the case of Wings the extras were single color tinting and hand drawn in animated flames and machine gun fire, along with an intermission during the movie.

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KeyserCorleone
While the weaker storytelling keeps this movie from being the best of the year, these war scenes beat Napoleon in terms of visualization.