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Wings

Category: Drama, Romance, Action Month: 1927 Company: Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation Running off instance: 139 minutes
Starring: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston, El Brendel, Richard Tucker, Gary Cooper, Gunboat Smith, Henry B. Walthall, Roscoe Karns, Julia Swayne Gordon, Arlette Marchal
Director: William A. Wellman
Producer: Lucien Hubbard, B. P. Schulberg
Screenplay: John Monk Saunders (story), Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton
Camera operator: Harry Perry

Poster

Awards

Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Engineering Effects

Wings occurs as 1927 silent movie about fighter pilots during World War I (Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Richard Arlen), who vie for the same girl (Clara Bow) directed by William Wellman. A film was a foremost film to win a Academy Award for Best Picture (then known as "Best Picture, Production"), inside 1929. It was as well a simply film to ever win a Academy Award for Engineering Effects. A film was written by John Monk Saunders (story) and Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and directed by William A. Wellman.

A film has been deemed "culturally significant" per United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The Flick Filosopher: Wings
MaryAnn Johanson's review: "remains just as powerful today as it must have been in 1927."

IMDb: Wings
Plot outline, cast and crew, and reviews.


Arts: Movies: Awards: Academy Awards: Recipients: Best Picture






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