Men of the Sky

Men of the Sky

20 mins | Drama, War | July 25, 1942

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.

Men of the Sky

20 mins | Drama, War | July 25, 1942

Men of the Sky
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
Original title Men of the Sky
Directors B. Reeves Eason
Writers Owen Crump

Cast

Tod Andrews

as Cadet Frank Bickley

Eleanor Parker

as Mrs. Frank Bickley

Don DeFore

as Cadet Dick Mathews

Ray Montgomery

as Cadet Jim Morgan

Ruth Ford

as Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart

Dave Willock

as Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens

Owen Crump

as Narrator (voice)

Henry H. Arnold

as Himself - 'Hap' Arnold

Franklyn Farnum

as Farmer (uncredited)

Inez Gay

as Mrs. Mathews (uncredited)

Sol Gorss

as Shoe Repair Shop Prorietor (uncredited)

Harry Harvey Jr.

as Jim Morgan, as a Boy (uncredited)

Billy Lechner

as Little Brother Mathews (uncredited)

Hank Mann

as Storekeeper (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

as Mr. Mathews (uncredited)

Jack Mower

as Mr. Morgan (uncredited)

Lottie Williams

as Woman Outside Church (uncredited)