Saturday, October 6, 2012

Wings continued

And, picking up from yesterday. I forgot to give you folks the Kentucky Theatre's site. Contact them at:

http://www.kentuckytheater.com/
The Kentucky is a beautiful old theater, opulent and rich with history. Between their classic film series, special events, and foreign and independent film showings, we need to help keep it going with a donation.

Okay, done with the public service announcement. Now, back to the show.

Wings tells the story four people -- the girl next door, Mary (Clara Bow) who loves the boy next door, Jack (Charles "Buddy" Rogers), although Jack is clueless and thinks of her as just a good friend. Jack's in love with the visiting city girl, Sylvia (Jobyna Ralston). But, she's in love with the rich guy in town, David (Richard Arlen).

Meanwhile, we're getting involved in WWI, and Jack and David become aviators, eventually evolving from rivals into war buddies. One of the many, many elements I loved about this movie was the fact that they didn't make David into the stereotypical snooty rich kid. He pretty much was just a regular guy.

With all this set against the backdrop of the war, it made for one incredible show.

William Wellman would go on the next year to team up with Clara Bow and Richard Arlen again in 1928's Ladies of the Mob.

Clara Bow and Richard Arlen would team up again, in the 1929 drama, Dangerous Curves. And, I don't think they're referring to auto racing. What's great about these films and the time period they were made is that the Hays Code wasn't in existence yet. Which meant that, for example, the battle sequences in Wings were fairly graphic in nature.

Well, that's enough of me rambling on for this post, so I'll mosey on.

'til next time... Adios.

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