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:
Starring | Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers & Gary Cooper | |
Performer: | Richard Arlen, Hedda Hopper & George Irving | |
Directed by | William A. Wellman | |
Edited by | E. Lloyd Sheldon |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1927 -
Best Engineering Effects: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1927 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Variety
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.
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1More Film Blog
This feature gives one an unforgettable idea of the existence of these daring fighters.
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New York Times
Long touted as a classic by cinema historians, and justifying almost every adjectival extravagance.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
The Academy Award-winning flying sequences still hold their own against today's CGI.
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Sky Cinema
Wings comes from an era when it was okay to be heartbreakingly emotional at all times. The beats are more obvious, and the acting is more over-the-top, but it doesn't necessarily feel artificial.
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Nerdist
The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether.
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TIME Magazine
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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