Lost Squadron (1932)
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67% of users liked it
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Unable to find steady work after WWI, three former flying aces -- Gibson (Richard Dix), Woody (Robert Armstrong) and Red (Joel McCrea) -- hire themselves out as stunt flyers for the movies. They find themselves employed by tyrannical director Von Furst (Erich Von Stroheim, playing what amounts to a… More Unable to find steady work after WWI, three former flying aces -- Gibson (Richard Dix), Woody (Robert Armstrong) and Red (Joel McCrea) -- hire themselves out as stunt flyers for the movies. They find themselves employed by tyrannical director Von Furst (Erich Von Stroheim, playing what amounts to a self-caricature), who has no qualms about sending men to their deaths for the sake of "realism." Developing an esprit de corps with their fellow stunt pilots, our heroes regularly converge at the local watering hole to honor the latest casualties, wiping their names from a blackboard just as they'd done back in the Great War. When Von Furst, driven to insane jealousy by his much-abused wife Follette (Mary Astor), murders one of the pilots in cold blood, the others take a grim but thoroughly justifiable revenge. Boasting several first-rate aviation sequences, The Lost Squadron was scripted by real-life Hollywood stunt flyer Dick Grace (who also appears in the film); it was also the first RKO Radio production to carry the screen credit "executive producer, David O. Selznick." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- George Archainbaud
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 10, 1932 Wide
- Studio
- RKO Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Penned in a delightfully nasty cynical way by Herman Mankiewicz.
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Cast
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Richard Dix
as Capt. Gibson
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Mary Astor
as Follette Marsh
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Erich von Stroheim
as Arthur von Furst
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Dorothy Jordan
as The pest
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Joel McCrea
as Red
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Ralph Ince
as Jettick Detective
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Robert Armstrong
as Lt. Woody Curwood
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Hugh Herbert
as Fritz
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Dick Grace
as filer
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Leo Nomis
as filer
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Frank Clark
as Flier
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Ward Bond
as Soldier
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William B. Davidson
as Lelewer
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Ralph Lewis
as Joe
- Edna May Oliver
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Marjorie Peterson
as Stenographer
