HELL'S ANGELS

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• Release Year: 1930
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Billionaire HOWARD HUGHES produced and directed 'Hell's Angels', the most expensive film ever made of its time. Hughes spared no expense in capturing an exciting dogfight between R.A.F. and German fighter planes, using 137 pilots in all. 'Hell's Angels' is perhaps more notable for introducing JEAN HARLOW to the screen in her first major film role.; ; Set during World War I, 'Hell's Angels' is the story of three Oxford buddies: two brothers (BEN LYON and JAMES HALL) and one German (JOHN DARROW). When all three are conscripted to fight on opposing sides of the war, each is torn between obedience to his country and that of his conscience. Jean Harlow is the woman who comes between the three men in this lavish period adventure.
• Cast: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke, Roy Wilson, Douglas Gilmore, Jane Winton, Evelyn Hall, William B. Davidson, Wyndham Standing, Lena Malena, Marian Marsh, Carl von Haartman, Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, Stephen Carr, Thomas Carr, J. Granville-Davis, Howard Batt, George Berliner, Bob Blair, Eddie Brownell, Nora Cecil, Hank Coffin, Ross Cooke, Lawford Davidson, Jack Deery, Lucy Doraine, David Findlay, Curt Furberg, Frank Goddard, Lisa Gora, Douglas Gordon, Owen Gorin, Pat Harmon, Hans Joby, Al Johnson, Morey Johnson, Werner Klingler, Burton Lane, Al Lary, Garland Lincoln, Harry Lipman, Rene Marvelle, Maurice Murphy, Stewart Murphy, Leo Nomis, Ira Reed, Georgette Rhodes, Harry Semels, Ernie Smith, Pat Somerset, Joan Standing, Harry Strang, C.F. Sullivan, Gertrude Sutton, Frank Tomick, Roscoe Turner, Wilhelm von Brincken, Tibor von Janny, Al Wilson, Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale, Marshall Neilan, Joseph Moncure March, Howard Estabrook, Harry Behn, Elmer Dyer, Tony Gaudio, Harry Perry, E. Burton Steene, Dewey Wrigley, Harry Zech, Douglass Biggs, Frank Lawrence, Perry Hollingsworth, Hugo Riesenfeld, Adolph Tandler
• Director: Howard Hughes
• Runtime: 2:07
• Company: Universal Studios, Caddo Company, Hughes Tool Company
• Media Format: Movie