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Parachute Jumper is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alfred E. Green released in USA on 28 january 1933 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Parachute Jumper (1933)
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Add to a movie listParachute Jumper is a 1933 Pre-Code black-and-white drama film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh. It was based on a story by Rian James entitled "Some Call It Love".
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United States Marine Corps Lieutenants and pilots Bill Keller (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) and "Toodles" Cooper (Frank McHugh) are shot down in the skies over Nicaragua. When they are found drunk and unharmed in a cantina, they and the Marine Corps go their separate ways. They are offered jobs as commercial pilots, but when they arrive in New York City, they find their would-be employer has gone bankrupt.Actors
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
(Bill Keller)
Bette Davis
(Patricia 'Alabama' Brent)
Frank McHugh
(Toodles Cooper)
Claire Dodd
(Mrs. Newberry)
Leon Ames
(Pilot with Alabama (uncredited))
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