Ace of Aces

1933
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1h 16min

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Elizabeth Allan and Richard Dix in Ace of Aces (1933)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.

Réalisation
- J. Walter Ruben
Scénario
- John Monk Saunders
- H.W. Hanemann
Casting principal

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Réalisation
- J. Walter Ruben
Scénario
- John Monk Saunders
- H.W. Hanemann
Casting principal

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Richard Dix

2nd Lt. Rex 'Rocky' Thorne

Elizabeth Allan

Nancy Adams

Ralph Bellamy

Capt.…

Theodore Newton

Lt. Foster 'Froggy' Kelley

Nella Walker

Mrs. Adams

Anderson Lawler

2nd Lt. Tim Terry
(as Anderson Lawlor)

Frank Conroy

Maj.…

Joe Sawyer

Capt. Daly
(as Joe Sauers)

Arthur Jarrett

2nd Lt. James 'Jenny' Lind

Claude Gillingwater Jr.

1st Lt. Tommy Gray

Clarence Stroud

2nd Lt. Billy Winstead

Claude Stroud

2nd Lt. Carroll Winstead

Frank Clarke

German Cadet
(as Frank Clark)

Helmut Gorin

German Cadet

William Cagney

2nd Lt. Meeker
(non crédité)

Oliver Cross

Party Guest
(non crédité)

Jay Eaton

Card Playing Party Guest
(non crédité)

Sam Flint

Army Doctor
(non crédité)

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7bkoganbing

A Taste For War

Ace Of Aces casts Richard Dix as a sculptor who is determined just not to get involved in the war even after the USA enters. But those were jingoistic years and when his own girlfriend Elizabeth Allan shames him into it he joins the Army and gets into the new Army Air Corps.

Once he's involved Dix discovers he has a taste for war and gets real good at combat flying. Others who aren't as good get dead and soon. But he's taken up by the media and is soon like Eddie Rickenbacker, the Ace Of Aces. And Elizabeth Allan does not like what she sees when she visits the front doing war work.

Dix gives a fine performance, one of the best I've seen in his talkie period. Very good use is made of the combat footage. It might very well have been outtakes from Howard Hughes's Hell's Angels or Paramount's Wings instead of the real deal or a combination. Still it's effectively added in.

Kudos also go to Ralph Bellamy as Dix's immediate superior who doesn't like him and has him figured out very well. One big flaw is the film has an obviously tacked on ending.

Ace Of Aces still holds up well after eight decades and ranks up high with aviation themed films.

9eflapinskas

a well made film

Considering the era it was made this film was very well made. Of all the fluff that came out of Hollywood I'm sure this was a pleasant change of pace for moviegoers of the day and is still worth watching some 70 + years later.

War and especially combat change a man and usually not for the better for a long time if not for life. This movie went into the dark corners of these human transformations. Great acting, writing, and directing was put into this effort.

Richard Dix was well chosen for the lead of this film as the role called for a tough character in this lead role of fighter pilot ace. Although Mr. Dix is not as well known in film history as Gable or Bogart he was very popular back in the 30's and 40's and a leading man. His untimely death at age 56 shortened a great career. If you get the chance to see this movie, please seize the opportunity to view some real Hollywood history.

6ksf-2

war time story... with a dose of propaganda

Richard Dix gets above the title on this war time flick. Co-stars british Elizabeth Allan and Ralph Bellamy. Actor Dix was already forty, much older than everyone else in the troop of foreign flyers, fighting the germans in the sky. He is a great pilot and strategist, and racks up many kills. Keep an eye out for the awesome Grady Sutton, when he comes in with news of the war. Had mostly uncredited roles before this, and even this one was uncredited. It's the typical war time flick. Men went off to war, and came back changed. How will the experience change his relationship with his girl Nancy from back home? And he gets a little too philosophical near the end... does the viewer really need a discussion on the pros and cons of going to war? Bellamy was just getting started in hollywood... this was one of TWELVE films released in 1933 for him. Granted, it wasn't a big role. Story based on bird of prey by John Saunders. Directed by walt ruben. Married to actress Virginia Bruce when he died at 43 of a bad heart. Dix also died young at 56, of heart problems.

6movingpicturegal

Ace Gone Wild

Rocky and Nancy, couple in love, when War is declared (WWI, in spite of their early 30s clothing). Rocky (played by Richard Dix) compares soldiers to lemmings "trying to reach a goal that doesn't exist" - Nancy (Elizabeth Allan) thinks her man is "yellow" as she pushes him into going to battle. Next thing you know, Rocky has joined an Aero Squadron and is encamped in a barracks full of nicknamed comrades and a menagerie of "mascots" not limited to a goat, pig, chimp, parrot, and Rocky's personal mascot, a cute little lion cub (actually, he looked sort of like a leopard to me). Rocky starts out fighting his morals against shooting another man - but not for long, it seems, as Rocky gets pretty darn aggressive amazingly quickly - the war has completely gone to his head as Rocky turns into the fighting ace of all aces!

This film is a bit hit or miss - parts of it are good, other parts are quite slow-moving and boring. Richard Dix gives a somewhat hammy performance and there are some pretty fake looking kisses between the two leads, a real lack of chemistry there, I would say. BUT - there is some interesting photography in the air battle scenes, and a few other interesting scenes here and there, especially notable is a scene where Dix is confronted by one of the German soldiers he shot down, now on his death bed. Okay film.

8planktonrules

this movie dares to be different and makes an excellent point

This movie, along with the similar EAGLE AND THE HAWK and ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, is an excellent anti-war film made during the 1930s. It's completely original and unusual enough to merit you watching it. So what's so unusual about it? Well, Richard Dix plays a pacifist who only reluctantly agrees to go to war. However, once he becomes a fighter pilot and gets a taste for blood, his personality changes dramatically. Gone is the decent soul who had once longed to become a famous sculptor and in its place was a man who lived to kill--enjoying every minute of it! While this certainly isn't true of everyone who goes to war, the notion that personalities can dramatically change thanks to the carnage is an excellent point to make indeed.

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Anecdotes
Lieutenant Thorne's pet lion in the film was based on two real lions who served as mascots for the Lafayette Escadrille, a squadron made up of American volunteers prior to the U.S. entering the war. The two lions were named "Whiskey" and "Soda."

Gaffes
Even though the film takes place in 1917-1918, all of Elizabeth Allan's clothing and hairstyles are strictly early 1930s, the year the film was produced.

Citations
Nancy Adams: You've changed. You're so different. Is this what the war has done to you?
2nd Lt. Rex 'Rocky' Thorne: Wasn't this what you wanted?
Nancy Adams: I didn't know. I spoke of the glory of war. I know now. The mud, the filth, the suffering, the agony, the poor, helpless, dying boys.
2nd Lt. Rex 'Rocky' Thorne: It isn't muddy up where I am. When death comes, it comes swiftly and cleanly. Ah, it's a grand war. I only hope the next one is half as good. I used to think I could take clay and mold it into the semblance of a living thing. The closer it came to being alive, the greater my glory. The power of life is more than that, Nancy. Life--life for myself as I control my plane. And then death, swift and final in the squeeze of my fingers.
[laughs]
2nd Lt. Rex 'Rocky' Thorne: You can't do that with clay, Nancy.
Nancy Adams: Then all that you said about saving yourself for something better--
2nd Lt. Rex 'Rocky' Thorne: Did I say that? Forget it. Why, this is a great war, and I'm having a grand time. It's all grand, every minute of it. Thirty-three planes shot down. Decorated by a French general. My picture in the papers. The idol of the allies, the hero, the great war ace. Pursued by women. Boy, I wouldn't have missed this for anything. You did me a great favor that day in the studio.
[laughs]
2nd Lt. Rex 'Rocky' Thorne: Me and my ideals for humanity. Ha! Why, I might still be back there slaving, trying to express myself on some remote conception of art.
Nancy Adams: Please, Rocky!
2nd Lt. Rex 'Rocky' Thorne: Come on, Nancy. Don't try to make me feel sorry for myself, because there's nothing to feel sorry for.