West Point of the Air

West Point of the Air

Infobox Film
name = West Point of the Air


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director = Richard Rosson
producer = Monta Bell
writer = James Kevin McGuinness (story)
John Monk Saunders (story)
Frank Wead (screenplay)
Arthur J. Beckhard (screenplay)
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starring = Wallace Beery
Robert Young
Lewis Stone
Maureen O'Sullivan
Rosalind Russell
Robert Taylor
music = Charles Maxwell
cinematography = Clyde De Vinna
editing = Frank Sullivan
distributor =
released = 1935
runtime = 89 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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followed_by =
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imdb_id = 0027196

"West Point of the Air" is a 1935 film starring Wallace Beery, about pilot training in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the early 1930's. The supporting cast includes Robert Young, Lewis Stone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Rosalind Russell, and Robert Taylor. The movie was directed by Richard Rosson'

"West Point of the Air" was filmed on location at Randolph Field, near San Antonio, Texas, the eponymous "West Point of the Air", using live action footage, models, and cockpit mockups of Consolidated PT-3 flight trainers.

John Wayne later portrayed Frank "Spig" Wead, one of the film's script writers, in John Ford's biographical movie "The Wings of Eagles".

Cast

*Wallace Beery as Sgt. "Big Mike" Stone
*Robert Young as Lt. "Little Mike" Stone
*Lewis Stone as General Carter
*Maureen O'Sullivan as "Skip" Carter
*Russell Hardie as Lt. Phil Carter
*Rosalind Russell as Mrs. Dare Marshall
*James Gleason as Joe "Bags"
*Henry Wadsworth as Lt. Pettis
*Robert Taylor as "Jasky" Jaskarelli
*Robert Livingston as "Pip" Pippinger
*Frank Conroy as Capt. Cannon


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