Flight Lieutenant (Columbia Pictures) (1942)

(Review) Flight Lieutenant’ Thrilling Sky Saga Roaring with the thrills of power-diving pilots, “Flight Lieutenant,” Columbia’s thundering drama of the air with Pat O’Brien, Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes, opened yesterday at the Theatre. O’Brien is a former ace of World War I who brings a gloricus aerial career as a commercial pilot to an ignominious end through drunkeness, His son, Ford, enlists as an air cadet. On the eve of Ford’s graduation exercises, the O’Brien relationship is revealed, alienating the cadet and Miss Keyes, whose father met her death through O’Brien’s negligence. The examining officer, who happens to be the dead man’s brother, puts Ford through an exceptionally severe test. Thinking he has failed the test, and not realizing that Miss Keyes still loves him, Ford follows his father to South America but returns to the states to enlist at the outbreak of war. O’Brien, too, volunteers, and is’ stationed at the same field as his son. When his son offers to test a defective plane, O’Brien knocks him out and takes the plane aloft himself in the stirring climax. Such well-kncwn character actors as Jonathan Hale, Minor Watson and Frank Puglia are also seen. An interesting sidelight to today’s audience is the presence of Larry Parks in a relatively minor role, one of his first, incidentally. Sidney Salkow directed this throbbing saga of the skies for producer B. P. Schulberg. Larry Parks, Too Fans who see _ Columbia’s re-release, “Flight Lieutenant,” Gt Mytmenienet aes ee cote ee Theatre will probably rub their eyes in incredulous surprise. For there, big as life, they’ll be viewing star Larry Parks—but in a comparatively minor role. The film, with Pat O’Brien, Glenn Fcrd and Evelyn Keyes, was one of Larry’s earliest. O’BRIEN FORD K Screen play by Michael Blankfort with GLENN EVELYN EYES Directed by SIDNEY SALKOW Produced by B. P. SCHULBERG A COLUMBIA RE-RELEASE Flight Lieutenant Mat 2-A; Prod. Still No. 110 THREE ON A SPREE! Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes and Pat O’Brien take time out for some fun in Columbia’s "Flight Lieutenant,” exciting saga of the air, currently being re-released at the Theatre, (Opening Notize) ‘Flight Lieutenant’ Returns to Screen Columbia’s' re-release of “Wlight Lieutenant,” stirring aviation drama _ with Pat O’Brien, Glenn Ford and Evelyn eves; Opens: 2 asks at hes ese eas: Theatre. Michael Blankfort’s screenplay was directed by Sidney Salkow for producer B. P. Schulberg. Jonathan Hale, Minor Watson and Frank Puglia play important supporting roles. Pat's in Trouble Although cinematically, Pat O’Brien is one of the screen’s toughest men, in real life he’s of a definitely pacific nature. This contradiction has caused Pat no end cof trouble, especially on personal appearance tours where some lad handy with his fists always feels impelled to challenge Pat! O’Brien is seen in Columbia’s dramatic re-release, “Flight Lieutenant,” currently at the Theatre with Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes. Copyright 1948 Columbia Pictures Corp. (Reader) Perfect Casting For Pat O’Brien Pat O’Brien’s screen roles have helped him become expert in handling various planes. The Columbia _ re-release, “Flight Lieutenant,” now showITO a eb Dee eee Theatre, is but one of the half-dozen o1 so aviation dramas in which he has appeared. Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes play romantic leads in this adventure. O’Brien’s list of air films includes “China Clipper” “Devil Dogs of the Air,” ‘Ceiling Zero,’ “Bombardier’ and “Air Mail.” Ford's Forebears Glenn Ford, seen with Pat: O’Brien and Evelyn Keyes in Columbia’s exciting re-release, “Flight Lieutenant,’ at the het Theatre, has some famed ancestors. Ford, a Canadian by birth, is a nephew cf Sir John MacDonald, former Prime Minister of Canada and a descendant of Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States. (General Advance) ~~ : “Fli,at Lieutenant,” with Pat O’Brien, Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes, will be re-released at the Theatre by Columbia starting ~.......... Hailed as one of the great service pictures when it was originally shown, the film, it will be recalled, contains some of the most thrilling’ serial sequences ever photographed. The thundering adventure story of a man who zooms to doom—and back—for the sake of the flyers of the future, “Flight Lieutenant” also tells a thrilling father-and-son yarn, and spins a heart-warming love story. Michael Blankfort’s screen (Reader) Parachute Jumping Easy for Glenn Ford There’s a lot of difference be tween the parachute jump which Glenn Ford makes in Columbia’s dramatic “Flight Lieutenant,” a re-release with Pat O’Brien and Evelyn Keyes at the Theatre, and the aerial leap he took many years ago. Ford’s earlier jump was made from a 5,000-foot altitude for an advertising photographer, when the actor was a struggling unknown sorely in need of money. His parachute leap, in a scene with O’Brien, was made from a 50-foot platform with an extra large chute. Keyes at the Keys Beautiful Evelyn Keyes, who is seen with Pat O’Brien, and Glenn Ford in Columbia’s dramatic re-release, “Flight Lieutenant,”” now showing at the Hiislg he tetas te Theatre, has one of the oddest hobbies in Hollywceod. She is a piano tuner, and is said to be one of the most expert on the Coast. Saag Ford, Keyes : Flight Lieutenant’ play concerns O’Brien, a famous pilot of World War I who disgraces himself when his commercial plane crashes, killing his co-pilot. His son, Ford, becomes an air cadet, is temporarily stymied in flying and romance, but enlists in the Air Corps when Pearl Harbor is bombed. In a final, heroic act, O’Brien redeems his name by taking up a defective test plane. The color inherent in the exciting sequences of test pilots, army aviation cadets, dive bombing, and _ aeronautical training are sure to hold today’s audiences just as_ spellbound as they did when originally shown. Miss Keyes is the girl whom Ford wins, while a face familiar to millions of moviegoers, Larry Parks, is seen in a small role which helped smooth his way to stardom. Sidney Salkow directed for producer B. P. Schulberg. Flight Lieutenant Mat 1-A; Prod. Still No. 148 UNDAUNTED! Glenn Ford = and Evelyn Keyes in Columbia's “Flight Lieutenant,” re-release current at the caeos so aneatre,