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Coincides with the release of the film starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall and illustrated with scenes from the Samuel Goldwyn Production.

Set in the South Seas, the film is about a Polynesian, Terangi (Jon Hall), who is unjustly imprisoned after being attacked by a racist with political connections. Unable to bear being confined, Terangi repeatedly tries to escape, lengthening his sentence from 6 months to 16 years. He succeeds in getting out after 8 years but at a terrible price: he unintentionally kills a guard. He steals a canoe and returns to his island home after an arduous journey. He is reunited with his wife, Marama (Dorothy Lamour), and a daughter he has never seen before. As he is hunted down, the island is struck by a once-in-a-lifetime hurricane.

"The Hurricane" 1937 movie trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WI_enLFGG8
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Jon Hall would later star in the American TV series "Ramar of the Jungle" (1952-54).

The publication of the book coincides with the British release of this acclaimed comedy and it’s the only movie tie-in edition of the film. On the front cover is a comic color photo of the Marx Brothers -- Chico, Harpo and Groucho with his ever-present cigar. The brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-1eJejNcY

ADAPTED FROM
COLUMBIA’S ALL-TALKING
PICTURE BY RALPH GRAVES
A FRANK R. CAPRA PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY HARRY COHN

“The first all-talking drama of the air will thrill you.”

“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.

Receiving the Marine Corps’ full cooperation, including the use of facilities and personnel at Naval Base San Diego and NAS North Island, provided the authentic settings Capra required. A total of 28 aircraft were at Capra’s disposal and with the benefit of using actual aircraft, Capra did not have to rely on “process shots” or special effects which was the standard of the day, although dangerous crash scenes and a mass night takeoff were staged using studio miniatures. [Source: Wikipedia]

(Frank Capra would later direct such classics as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life.)

From the book “Flight: An Epic of the Air” by Irwin R. Franklyn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1929). First Photoplay Edition, with scenes from the film.

“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation. [Source: Wikipedia]

From the book “Flight: An Epic of the Air” by Irwin R. Franklyn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1929). First Photoplay Edition, with scenes from the film.

“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation. [Source: Wikipedia]

When the “Flying Devils” squadron is sent to quell bandit attacks by the notorious General Lobo of Nicaragua, Panama arranges for Lefty to accompany him as his mechanic. Panama shows Lefty a photograph of Elinor, the love of his life, not knowing Lefty is in love with her too. When Elinor is sent to Nicaragua, she does not understand the guilt-stricken Lefty’s cool reception. When the girl-shy Panama asks Lefty to propose to Elinor on his behalf, Elinor confesses her love for him instead, after which Panama accuses Lefty of betrayal.

From the book “Flight: An Epic of the Air” by Irwin R. Franklyn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1929). First Photoplay Edition, with scenes from the film.

“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation. [Source: Wikipedia]

ADAPTED FROM
COLUMBIA’S ALL-TALKING
PICTURE BY RALPH GRAVES
A FRANK R. CAPRA PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY HARRY COHN

“The first all-talking drama of the air will thrill you.”

“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.

Receiving the Marine Corps’ full cooperation, including the use of facilities and personnel at Naval Base San Diego and NAS North Island, provided the authentic settings Capra required. A total of 28 aircraft were at Capra’s disposal and with the benefit of using actual aircraft, Capra did not have to rely on “process shots” or special effects which was the standard of the day, although dangerous crash scenes and a mass night takeoff were staged using studio miniatures. [Source: Wikipedia]

(Frank Capra would later direct such classics as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life.)

“These flowers remind me of a barber shop,” he explained.

ADAPTED FROM
COLUMBIA’S ALL-TALKING
PICTURE BY RALPH GRAVES
A FRANK R. CAPRA PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY HARRY COHN

“The first all-talking drama of the air will thrill you.”

“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.

"Flight" is the romance of a young man (Lefty Phelps) who ran backwards in life until he finally caused his college to lose the biggest football game of the season. Disgraced and dishonored, he left his friends and family with no definite purpose in mind as to his future.

While waiting for a train to New York, he sees a poster announcing that the Marine Corps builds men. Wondering what kind of a man the Service will make of him, he enlists for aviation instruction and meets the first love of his life.

After weeks of intensive training, he fails when given his big chance. Only through the friendship of a flight sergeant (Panama Williams) is he enabled to remain in the air service as a mechanic.

At that time, the Sandino rebellion in Nicaragua broke loose and he left with his Squadron. How he finally made good, winning back the respect of his friends, the officers of the Marine Corps, and the girl he loved, is told in a gripping and constantly moving story. You will love the adventure, thrill over the hair-raising action and adore the romance of this tale. [From the synopsis on the dust jacket]

Lefty flies as gunner for Steve Roberts as they respond to an urgent call for help by a Marine outpost under bandit attack. During the mission, their aircraft is shot down in a swamp. Unwilling to join in the rescue, Panama reports in sick, but once Elinor convinces him that Lefty never betrayed him, he flies his own solo rescue mission. At the crash site, Roberts dies of his injuries and is cremated by Lefty using their aircraft as a funeral pyre.

From the book “Flight: An Epic of the Air” by Irwin R. Franklyn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1929). First Photoplay Edition, with scenes from the film.

“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation. [Source: Wikipedia]

"The Big Sleep" centers around the Sternwoods: an old, paralyzed ex-soldier, who made a fortune in oil; his two beautiful daughters -- one a gambler, the other a degenerate; and a strangely missing son-in-law. Marlowe, the detective -- shrewd, strong, and incorruptible, the healthy force amid the shadows and the whispers -- is called in to break a blackmail case and ends up to his neck in a series of mysterious murders.

The 1946 movie version of "The Big Sleep" from Warner Brothers stars Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge.

"The Big Sleep" centers around the Sternwoods: an old, paralyzed ex-soldier, who made a fortune in oil; his two beautiful daughters -- one a gambler, the other a degenerate; and a strangely missing son-in-law. Marlowe, the detective -- shrewd, strong, and incorruptible, the healthy force amid the shadows and the whispers -- is called in to break a blackmail case and ends up to his neck in a series of mysterious murders.

The 1946 movie version of "The Big Sleep" from Warner Brothers stars Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge.

The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."

Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News.
[Source: Wikipedia]

“This novel portrays in an absorbing way one of the very greatest events in American history, the building of the first transcontinental railway. It is an epic of titanic labor, Man pitted against Nature in the shock of combat. Across the great trail falls the majestic shadow of Lincoln, the Builder, Lincoln who foresaw that an empire would spring to life with the first magnetic touch of the steel shod hoof of the Iron Horse. Against the background of the thrilling life of the Old West is thrown a vivid picture of the terrific building race between the two roads which were to unite and make one: Of the battles with the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes, of the bad, mad towns which mushroomed and decayed as the rails thrust forward like shining rapiers: Of the heroic exploits of unconquerable men: the whole mellowed with a love story of the most appealing charm.” [Quoting the blurb on the dust jacket]

“William Fox’s “The Iron Horse: A Romance of the East and the West,” a John Ford Production, Three Years in the Making. The Characters and the Players include:
Davy Brandon (George O’Brien)
Miriam Marsh (Madge Bellamy)
Abraham Lincoln (Charles Edward Bull)
Thomas Marsh ( Will Walling)
Deroux (Fred Kohler)
Peter Jesson (Cyril Chadwick) . . .

. . . And a regiment of United States troops and cavalry, 3,000 railway workmen, 1,000 Chinese laborers, 800 Pawnee, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, 2,800 horses, 1,300 buffalo, 10,000 Texas steers. (Special Note: The actual old-time locomotives and equipment which figured in the building of the Trans-Continental Railway are used throughout “The Iron Horse” – “Jupiter,” of the Central Pacific, and “119,” of the Union Pacific.) [As stated on the rear panel of the dust jacket]

The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."

Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News.
[Source: Wikipedia]

The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."

Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News.
[Source: Wikipedia]

The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."

Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News.
[Source: Wikipedia]

The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."

Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News.
[Source: Wikipedia]

The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."

Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News.
[Source: Wikipedia]

The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."

Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News.
[Source: Wikipedia]

The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."

Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News.
[Source: Wikipedia]