May 26 movie: The Dawn Patrol. This year for Memorial Day TCM did a special on WWI movies. They had a guy from a WWI museum to introduce the movie. The guy was interesting but he mostly talked about the accuracy of the weapons, uniforms and airplanes. H did not have much to say about the movie as a movie.
Anyway The Dawn Patrol is a wonderful movie. I've seen it several times and it never gets tired. It was made between the wars, it's about a group of British biplane pilots who laugh in the face of death. Laugh, I tell you! And drink a lot. Stars Errol Flynn and David Niven as the hotshot pilots, and Basil Rathbone as their commander, who is tortured about having to send other men to their deaths, often in impossible conditions, when he'd rather be out there himself.
The Dawn Patrol includes 3 cast members who were also in The Adventures of Robin Hood, made in the same year: Flynn, Rathbone and Melville Cooper, who played the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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