Release Date

16 Jul, 1938

Runtime

01:45: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

AMERICA'S GREATEST HEROES!

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.

Original Title

Men with Wings

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Actors

Fred MacMurray

Ray Milland

Louise Campbell

Andy Devine

Lynne Overman

Porter Hall

Walter Abel

Kitty Kelly

Virginia Weidler

Donald O'Connor

James Burke

Willard Robertson

Dennis Morgan

Evelyn Keyes

Joan Leslie

Frank Clarke

Anita Randalla Berkely

Billy Bletcher

Mary Brodel

James P. Burtis

Dolores Casey

Crew

William LeBaron

Edith Head

Hans Dreier

W. Franke Harling

William A. Wellman

A. E. Freudeman

William A. Wellman

Robert Odell

Robert Carson

Gerard Carbonara

W. Howard Greene

Wally Westmore