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Captains of the Clouds 1942

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 113 min

theme: war

director: Michael Curtiz

Score: 4 / 10

Captains of the Clouds ( Shadows of Their Wings) is a 1942 Warner Bros. war film in Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney. It was produced by William Cagney (James Cagney's brother), with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was written by Arthur T. Horman, Richard Macaulay, and Norman Reilly Raine, based on a story by Horman and Roland Gillett. The cinematography was by Wilfred M. Cline, Sol Polito, and Winton C. Hoch and was notable in that it was the first feature-length Hollywood production filmed entirely in Canada.

Plot

Brian MacLean (James Cagney) irritates fellow bush pilots Johnny Dutton (Dennis Morgan), Tiny Murphy (Alan Hale Sr.), Blimp Lebec (George Tobias), and British expatriate Scrounger Harris (Reginald Gardiner) by outcompeting them for business in rugged Northern Ontario, Canada in 1939, as the Second World War is beginning. Dutton, whose ambition is to start his own airline, flies by the book, but MacLean is a seat-of-the-pants kind of pilot, mirroring the differences in their personalities.

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More details

author	Norman Reilly Raine
contentLocation	Canada
director	Michael Curtiz
editor	George Amy
events	aviation World War II
keywords	abandon air force air marshal alan hale sr. attack begin british commonwealth british commonwealth air training plan bush pilot commanding officer fairchild 71 ferry flying ferry pilots flight instructor fly hear injured kill lockheed hudson married messerschmitt bf 109 noorduyn norseman northern ontario on the beach ontario canada royal canadian air force speak train warn we shall fight on the beaches winston churchill world war i
musicBy	Max Steiner
nomination	Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color
producer	Hal B. Wallis
publisher	Warner Bros.
recordedAt	Ottawa
theme	northern war