Men of the Sky (1942)

Men of the Sky

1942

Drama War

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

B. Reeves Eason

Cast

Dave Willock as Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens

Don DeFore as Cadet Dick Mathews

Eleanor Parker as Mrs. Frank Bickley

Franklyn Farnum as Farmer (uncredited)

Henry H. Arnold as Himself - 'Hap' Arnold

Inez Gay as Mrs. Mathews (uncredited)

Owen Crump as Narrator (voice)

Ray Montgomery as Cadet Jim Morgan