Men with Wings - DVD

Biplanes flying in formation past the Washington Monument. A flotilla of seaplanes rising majestically off the surface of the Atlantic. Flyboys loop-de-looping their crafts through the wild blue yonder. A power dive that goes terrifyingly wrong. Wings of the Navy's story concerns two pilot brothers (George Brent and john Payne) who fall for the same girl (Olivia de Havilland, in the first of five films she would appear in during 1939, i

Oscar -nominated actor Ralph Bellamy (1937, Best Supporting Actor, The Awful Truth) stars as Barry Eldon, a loyal owner of a small airline company looking for a big government contract. When Consolidated Industries tries to buy Barry out, he refuses, and the greedy owners of Consolidated come up with a scheme to take Barry's company down: a ray that causes airplanes to lose their engines and crash. It is up to Barry to find out where th

Frank Spig Wead (John Wayne) is instrumental in advancing the cause of American air power, but he endures a troubled personal life, becoming estranged from his wife, Minnie (Maureen O'Hara) after the death of their baby. During a bout of drinking, he tumbles down the stairs of his home and is paralyzed. With the help of happy-go-lucky Navy mechanic Jughead Carson (Dan Dailey), Wead regains some use of his legs and eventually restores meaning to his life.