The Air Circus
(1928) American
B&W : 2152 metres
Directed by Howard Hawks and Lew Seiler (Lewis B. Seiler)

Cast: Arthur Lake [‘Speed’ Doolittle], Sue Carol [Sue Manning], David Rollins [Buddy Blake], Louise Dressler [Mrs. Blake], Charles Delaney [Charles Manning], Heinie Conklin [Jerry McSwiggin], Earl Robinson [Lieutenant Blake]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Screenplay by Seton I. Miller and Norman Z. McLeod with dialogue by F. Hugh Herbert, from a story by Graham Baker and Andrew Bennison. Assistant director William Tummel. Dialogue director Charles Judels. Cinematography by Daniel B. Clark. Intertitles by William Kernell. Edited by Ralph Dixon. Presented by William Fox. / Released 30 September 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Review: [Photoplay, April 1929, p. 8] : Collegiate stuff in an aviation training school. Good.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Keywords: Synchronized sound film - Transportation: Airplanes

Listing updated: 19 April 2007.

References: Geduld-Birth p. 234 : Photoplay-192904 p. 8 : Website-IMDb.