| Synopsis: Ceiling Zero is an adaptation of the Broadway play by Frank "Spig" Wead. James Cagney and Pat O'Brien are supremely typecast as, respectively, Dizzy Davis, a cocky civil aviator and Jake Lee, a sober-sided ground commander. Dizzy ducks out of a dangerous mission in order to dally with pretty Tommy Thomas (June Travis). Texas Clark (Stuart Erwin) takes Dizzy's place, and the unpolished young pilot dies in a fiery wreck. Disgraced in the eyes of his co-workers after Clark's death, Dizzy redeems himself ... Full Synopsis
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| Ceiling Zero is a film that only Howard Hawks could have made. Though it's based, and apparently quite faithfully, on a play by Frank Wead, the whole set-up has an unmistakable Hawks-ian feel to it. First, there's the eternal male camaraderie thing, with its spoken and unspoken codes of conduct. There's the importance of honesty and maturity. And there's a rapid-fire delivery to much of the dialogue ... Read Review | |
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