Charles Vanel and Annabella star as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffish behavior, Vanel befriends a young pilot who is in love with Vanel's wife.
Maurice Tourneur has said that making pictures is a commercial business and the same as making soap? To be successful, a commodity must be made that will sell. We have a choice between making bad, silly, childish and useless pictures that make a lot of money and make everybody rich. Or nice stories, which nobody wants to see? The American film producers will have to change their machine-made stories. They will have to come to a closer and truer view of humanity in order to make good successful stories.” Maurice Tourneur commented in Shadowland, May 1920. This was an American monthly magazine about art, dance and film. 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
114 min Drama, silent, black and white directed and written by Maurice Tourneur, based on a WWI novel by Joseph Kessel with Georges Charlia, Claire de Lorez, Jean Dax, Pierre de Guingand, Daniel Mendaille, Camille Bert, Charles Barrois, Robert Astruc, Robby Guichard, Mitchell, Rene Donnio, Monteaux, Belleville, Thevenet.
Note: Amazon gives the book 4.5* out of 5* with 151 ratings, DVD 4.6* out of 5* with 9 reviews. Produced by Lutece Films, Society de Generale de Films and released 30 March 1928.
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