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Men of the Sky is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alfred E. Green released in USA on 20 june 1931 with Bramwell Fletcher
Men of the Sky (1931)
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Add to a movie listMen of the Sky is a 1931 all-talking American Pre-Code musical drama film which was produced by Warner Bros. in 1930 and released in 1931. Originally planned as an all-Technicolor musical, filming began in July 1930, under the title of Call of the East. By the time filming had concluded in mid-September, due to the public backlash against musicals, the title was changed twice more (first to Stolen Dreams then to Men of the Sky), much of the music was cut and the film began to be advertised as a spy war drama. As a cost-savings measure, it was decided to release the film in black and white as color had come to be associated with musicals. Men of the Sky starred Irene Delroy and Jack Whiting.
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In this drama, the love affair between an American pilot named Jack Ames (Jack Whiting) and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert (Irene Delroy) is chronicled. Madeleine leaves her American boyfriend to join her father (John St. Polis), another French agent, as a spy for France at an estate in Germany.Actors
Bramwell Fletcher
Armand Kaliz
(Senor Mendoca)
John St. Polis
(Madeleine's Father)
Edwin Maxwell
(Count)
Otto Matieson
Frank McHugh
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