20,000 Men a Year

20,000 Men a Year

They lived on the end of a smoldering fuse!

NR 1939 · 84 min · ★ 6.2 · Action

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.

Directed by Alfred E. Green · Written by Frank Wead

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