Today we live / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; a Howard Hawks production ; director, Howard Hawks ; co-director, Richard Rosson ; writers, Edith Fitzgerald and Dwight Taylor ; story and dialogue, William Faulkner.
Publisher:
Turner Entertainment Co. ;
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Description:
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the short story Turn about, by William Faulkner, first published in the Saturday evening post on March 5, 1932. In its review, Variety claims that Hawks used footage from Howard Hughes's 1930 production Hell's Angels in this film, in particular the "sequence of the big bomber expedition" and the "main 'dog-fight' and the head-on collision of two planes." Joan Crawford (Diana Ann Boyce-Smith); Gary Cooper (Lieutenant Richard Bogard); Robert Young (Lieutenant Claude Hope); Franchot Tone (Lieutenant Ronnie Boyce-Smith); Roscoe Karns (Mac McGinnis); Louise Closser Hale (Applegate); Rollo Lloyd (major); Hilda Vaughn (Eleanor); Eily Malyon (maid). According to International photographer, photographer Elmer Dyer spent several weeks filming the aerial sequences for the film at March Field in California. Modern sources note that General Douglas MacArthur reserved the field for the studio's use.
Summary:
"Set during World War I, it tells the story of a lovely English aristocrat whose heart belongs to a dashing American flyer... and to her childhood sweetheart, who cannot face war's terror without her love"--Container.
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