Men of the Sky (1942)

5.8 July 25, 1942 20m Released

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

Cast

  • Tod Andrews

    Tod Andrews

    Cadet Frank Bickley

  • Eleanor Parker

    Eleanor Parker

    Mrs. Frank Bickley

  • Don DeFore

    Don DeFore

    Cadet Dick Mathews

  • Ray Montgomery

    Ray Montgomery

    Cadet Jim Morgan

  • Ruth Ford

    Ruth Ford

    Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart

  • Dave Willock

    Dave Willock

    Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens

  • Owen Crump

    Owen Crump

    Narrator (voice)

  • Henry H. Arnold

    Henry H. Arnold

    Himself - 'Hap' Arnold

  • Franklyn Farnum

    Franklyn Farnum

    Farmer (uncredited)

  • Inez Gay

    Inez Gay

    Mrs. Mathews (uncredited)

  • Sol Gorss

    Sol Gorss

    Shoe Repair Shop Prorietor (uncredited)

  • Harry Harvey Jr.

    Harry Harvey Jr.

    Jim Morgan, as a Boy (uncredited)

  • Billy Lechner

    Billy Lechner

    Little Brother Mathews (uncredited)

  • Hank Mann

    Hank Mann

    Storekeeper (uncredited)

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