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In Navy school, they were known as the Flying Six, six young cadets
with only one goal, to become ace flyers. One of them is already dismissed
the day before graduation, the remaining five undergo fierce training, and
one by one they drop out, until only two, Tommy (Ramon Navarro) and Steve
(Ralph Graves) remain in the race, but they're top flyers indeed. Thing
is, they both fall for the same girl, Anita (Anita Page), and even though
Steve is the better flyer, she falls in love with Tommy - which causes the
two men to become rivals, also professionally - which in turn, during a
maneuvre, causes Tommy to outsmart Steve in an unfair way to impress
Anita. Thus though, Steve is withdrawn from probably the biggest
assignment in his career, to fly a plane to Hawaii, an assignment that of
course goes to Steve. But then Steve's plane crashes in a storm before he
has the change to radio his position, and even though all planes on the
airplane carrier Tommy's on search for days, they fail to find him.
Everybody wants to give up - everybody but Tommy, who really risks his
last to find Steve ... which he ultimately does, and even if it means
crashing his own plane and risking his own life, he manages to somehow
alert the airplane carrier of the position of Steve's plane, and
ultimately everybody, Tommy, Steve and Steve's crew, are saved. And
finally, Steve gives up fighting for Anita, too ... Basically,
the whole film is a feature-length recruitment ad for the Navy - everybody
who wears a uniform in this movie is much too noble, values of the Navy
and its fighting men are always celebrated, never questioned, the whole
"conflict" the film is about is rather neglectable and totally
clichéed above that, and according to the credits, it was even
"produced with the sanction of the United States Navy". In a
nutshell, this means the film is extremely predictable and anything but
food for thoughts - but if you're into old airplanes, plenty of aerial
action, and an close-and-personal look at an airplane carrier of the
1920's, you definitely will want to see this movie, because while
the movie pretty much fails in all other departments, it definitely
delivers here.
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