Wings

Wings

Youth, hitting the clouds! Laughing at danger! Fighting, loving, dodging death! That's "WINGS"

PG-13 1927 · 144 min · ★ 7.2 · Drama, Action, War, Romance

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.

Directed by William A. Wellman · Written by John Monk Saunders

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