Wings
1927 · directed by William A. Wellman
- Rating
- 83/100
- Hit
- yes
- Prestige lists
- Oscar Winner
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.
Wings (1927), directed by William A. Wellman, rates 83/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Clara Bow
- Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
- Richard Arlen
- Jobyna Ralston
- El Brendel
- Richard Tucker
- Gary Cooper
- Gunboat Smith
- Henry B. Walthall
- Roscoe Karns
Crew
- Harry Perry — Director of Photography
- E. Lloyd Sheldon — Editor
- Hope Loring — Screenplay
- Louis D. Lighton — Screenplay
More from William A. Wellman
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) — 84/100 · hit
- Yellow Sky (1948) — 83/100 · hit
- The Public Enemy (1931) — 81/100 · hit
- A Star Is Born (1937) — 79/100
- Wild Boys of the Road (1933) — 78/100
- Beau Geste (1939) — 76/100
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