Men of the Sky

3.5
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Run time: 20 min
  • Premiere: 1942. July 25.

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

Discover

Tod Andrews

Cadet Frank Bickley

Eleanor Parker

Mrs. Frank Bickley

Don DeFore

Cadet Dick Mathews

Ray Montgomery

Cadet Jim Morgan

Ruth Ford

Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart

Dave Willock

Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens

Owen Crump

Narrator (voice)

Henry H. Arnold

Himself - 'Hap' Arnold

Franklyn Farnum

Farmer (uncredited)

Inez Gay

Mrs. Mathews (uncredited)

Sol Gorss

Shoe Repair Shop Prorietor (uncredited)

Harry Harvey Jr.

Jim Morgan, as a Boy (uncredited)

Billy Lechner

Little Brother Mathews (uncredited)

Hank Mann

Storekeeper (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

Mr. Mathews (uncredited)

Jack Mower

Mr. Morgan (uncredited)

Lottie Williams

Woman Outside Church (uncredited)

Camera

Charles P. Boyle

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Production

Sound

Writing

Owen Crump

Writer

Camera

Charles P. Boyle

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Production

Sound

Writing

Owen Crump

Writer