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Men with Wings
1938, Jul 16
1h 45m
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
Directed by
William A. Wellman
Written by
Robert Carson
Ray Milland
Scott Barnes
Donald O'Connor
Young Pat Falconer
Jonathan Hale
Long
Andy Devine
Joe Gibbs
George Chandler
Cody
Claire Du Brey
Edith
Frank Mills
Mechanic
Edward Earle
Officer
Billy Bletcher
Red Cross Man
Charles Trowbridge
Alcott
James Burke
J.A. Nolan
Fred MacMurray
Pat Falconer
Charles Williams
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
Chairman
Eddie Dunn
Field Employee
Kitty Kelly
Martha Ranson
Louise Campbell
Peggy Ranson
Porter Hall
Hiram F. Jenkins
Dennis Morgan
Galton
Al Hill
Mail Driver
Evelyn Keyes
Nurse
Willard Robertson
Col. Hadley
Walter Abel
Nick Ranson
Chuck Hamilton
Photographer
Ethel Clayton
Woman
Russell Hicks
Gen. Marlin
David Newell
Photographer
Lee Phelps
Photographer
Joan Leslie
Young Patricia Falconer
Paul Kruger
Reporter
Jerome Storm
Reporter
James P. Burtis
Reporter
Syd Saylor
Jimmy
Virginia Weidler
Young Peggy Ranson
John T. Murray
Jones
Harry Woods
Baker
John Hubbard
Attendant
Kitty McHugh
Nurse
Ruth Rogers
Girl
Juanita Quigley
Patricia Falconer at Age 6
Cheryl Walker
Nurse
Pat West
Photographer
Jean Fenwick
Nurse
Grace Goodall
Matron
Lynne Overman
Hank Rinebow
Garry Owen
Reporter
Lucille Miller
Norma
Art Rowlands
Reporter
Frank Clarke
Burke
Ronald R. Rondell
Mechanic
Archie Twitchell
Nelson
Billy Cook
Young Scott Barnes
Dolores Casey
Nurse
Anita Randalla Berkely
Peggy's Baby
Mary Brodel
Patricia Falconer at Age 17
Jack Chapin
Sentry
Sheila Darcy
Nurse
Jane Dewey
Nurse
Lillian Dickson
Woman
Norah Gale
Nurse
Sherry Hall
Field Official
Ralph McCullough
Reporter
Willy Morris
Clerk
Franklin Parker
Mail Truck Driver
Bob Perry
Waiter
Dorothy Tennant
Mrs. Hill
Frank Tomick
Bobby Tracy
Reporter
Ethel West
Woman
Dorothy White
Nurse
Joe Whitehead
Cab Driver
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