THE DAWN PATROL

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• Release Year: 1938
• Genre: Drama, War
• Plot: Errol Flynn and David Niven take to the skies in this thrilling aerial action yarn as World War I British flyboys who, whether quaffing down beers or gunning down their German foes, unite in devil-may-care gallantry and in disdain for their commander (Basil Rathbone). But war's realities will soon tarnish their bonhomie and change their disdain to understanding. They will also become commanders, forced each dawn to send young poorly trained recruits in patched-up aircraft to certain death. Its superior pacing, performances and style, combined with amazing dogfights above and a haunting indictment of war's futility below, make The Dawn Patrol a soaring classic of guts and glory.
• Cast: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald, Carl Esmond, Peter Willes, Morton Lowry, Michael Brooke, James Burke, Stuart Hall, Herbert Evans, Sidney Bracey, Leo Nomis, Hal Brazeale, Tyrone Brereton, Richard Deane, Burnett Fergrison, Fred Graham, Douglas Henderson, Ivo Henderson, Tim Henning, Shep Houghton, George Kirby, Anthony Marsh, John Meredith, Wally Rairden, Jack Richardson, John Rodion, Speirs Ruskell, Tom Seidel, John Sutton, F. Philip Sylvestre, Gordon Thorpe, Charles Waldron Jr., Gordon Wallace, Norman Willis, Gilbert Wilson, Edmund Goulding, John Monk Saunders, Howard Hawks, Dan Totheroh, Seton I. Miller
• Director: Edmund Goulding
• Runtime: 1:43
• Company: Warner Bros
• Media Format: Movie