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As early as 1921, the airplane as by Judith Crist hero emerged, rescuing boy and girl from a burning derrick (The Witch's Lure), getting the star player to the football ΓΕ ARE a nation of chairborne avia­ game in the nick of time {Live Wires), and rounding up tors, a movie audience tiiat for rustlers {The Vengeance Trail). But it was later in the dec­ more than half a century has ade, with the enthusiasm for World War I movies roused shared the rites anwd ritual;s o f pilots and passengers in a vast by King Vidor's The Big Parade in 1925 and Raoul Walsh's variety of flying machines, thanks to the twentieth-century What Price Glory in 1926, that the aviation film came into coincidence of the development of films and flight. its own, as action moved from the trenches to the skies, No need even to set foot in the overgrown bus terminals where knighthood was in flower. that airports have become. Alone in the movie-house dark, John Monk Saunders, the writer, William Wellman, the we have shared the bloodlust of two wars' aerial combat, director, and Dick Grace, the stunt man, all World War I partaken of pioneer adventure, participated in heroic ex­ fliers, were the moving forces behind Wings, the film that in ploits, and even sensed the lyricism that the poet-fliers have 1927 introduced the public not simply to aerial combat but found. The last is rarest—and all the sharing seems, these to the techniques and mystique of flight, of planes rolling days, to be part of a romantic past. In recent years, alas, and banking and diving and sweeping over the land. The beyond a few nostalgic forays into the past, aviation films stars were Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Clara Bow, and Rich­ have become disaster spectaculars, with huge passenger ard Arlen. The story—a prototype "buddy" saga, complete planes crammed with mad bombers, hijackers, lunatics and with high spirits, romantic competition and confusion, and eccentrics, stolen treasure, stricken children, singing nuns, Death, the Solver of Triangles—is the least of what remains pregnant stewardesses, lecherous pilots, lubricious adoles­ today: the finest World War I aviation-action sequences on cents, and similar concomitants of everyday entertainment. film, rivaled, perhaps, but unsurpassed by Howard Hughes's The first film about supersonic passenger flight, the recent Hell's Angels, made three years later. (Harry Perry served made-for-television SST—Death Flight, offered us, on the as chief photographer on both films.) 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