Wings (1927)
Youth, hitting the clouds! Laughing at danger! Fighting, loving, dodging death! That's "WINGS"
144 min
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
- Release date
- May 19, 1927
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $2,000,000
- Box office
- $3,600,000
Trailer
Cast
- Clara Bow as Mary Preston
- Charles 'Buddy' Rogers as Jack Powell
- Richard Arlen as David Armstrong
- Jobyna Ralston as Sylvia Lewis
- El Brendel as Herman Schwimpf
- Richard Tucker as Air Commander
- Gary Cooper as Cadet White
- Gunboat Smith as The Sergeant
- Henry B. Walthall as David's Father
- Roscoe Karns as Lt. Cameron
Crew
- William A. Wellman · Director
- John Monk Saunders · Writer
- Hope Loring · Writer
- Louis D. Lighton · Writer
- Julian Johnson · Writer
- Harry Perry · Cinematographer