Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
The Lost Squadron
The Lost Squadron

The Lost Squadron

-Not a War Picture- But a war picture in the making! -Planes flying, crashing, while below cameras grind, and an inhuman genius drives men to destruction for the supreme thrill!

Genres

DramaActionWarHistory

OverView

When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.

Others

Budget

$621000

Revenue

$732000

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

79 mins

Rating

6.3/10

Release Date

12 March 1932

Country

United States of America

Cast

Richard Dix

Richard Dix

Capt. 'Gibby' Gibson

Mary Astor

Mary Astor

Follette Marsh

Robert Armstrong

Robert Armstrong

Lt. 'Woody' Curwood

Dorothy Jordan

Dorothy Jordan

'Pest' Curwood

Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Red

Erich von Stroheim

Erich von Stroheim

Arthur von Furst

Hugh Herbert

Hugh Herbert

Sergeant Fritz

Ralph Ince

Ralph Ince

Jettick

Marjorie Peterson

Marjorie Peterson

Stenographer

Ralph Lewis

Ralph Lewis

Joe

William B. Davidson

William B. Davidson

Lelewer

Frank Clarke

Frank Clarke

Flier (uncredited)

Thomas A. Curran

Thomas A. Curran

Night Watchman (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Edgar Dearing

Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)

Art Goebel

Art Goebel

Flier (uncredited)

Dick Grace

Dick Grace

Flier (uncredited)

Arnold Gray

Arnold Gray

Tall Actor in War Film (uncredited)

Freeman Lang

Freeman Lang

Tall Actor in War Film (uncredited)

Leo Nomis

Leo Nomis

Flier (uncredited)

Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

Officer (uncredited)

Similar Movies

5.4

The Squaw Man

July 1931 •English

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.

4.5

Redemption

April 1930 •English

In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.

4.4

Way for a Sailor

November 1930 •English

A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.

6.3

West of Broadway

November 1931 •English

A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.

6.5

Scarlet Pages

September 1930 •English

Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her.

7.8

Freaks

January 1932 •English

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

7.7

All Quiet on the Western Front

April 1930 •English

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

6.2

He Was Her Man

June 1934 •English

A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

6.7

The Thing from Another World

April 1951 •English

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

5.2

Polly of the Circus

February 1932 •English

When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.

0.0

Above the Line

Invalid date •English

Described as combining the world of Swingers with the sensibility of Pulp Fiction, the L.A.-based comedy follows six Hollywood hopefuls who are roped into a harebrained plan to steal the Best Picture awards of a despised producer who has screwed each of them over as they struggle to make it big.

6.0

The Bachelor Father

January 1931 •English

Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.

6.6

The Dare Project

June 2018 •English

A popular high school hunk Johnny takes a late-night dip with cute loner Ben. Fifteen years later, these two men — who haven’t seen each other since a late-night tryst in high school — bump into each other unexpectedly.

5.8

Air America

August 1990 •English

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

6.0

Flight of the Phoenix

December 2004 •English

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.

5.0

Älskar älskar inte

October 1995 •Swedish

Maverick pilot must learn to live with disability.

6.6

The Red Baron

March 2008 •German

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.

6.8

James Dean

August 2001 •English

The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant.

5.3

The Woman Between

August 1931 •English

Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.

6.9

Swingers

October 1996 •English

After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he's still not doing very well— so a few of his friends try to reconnect him to the social scene and hopefully help him forget his failed relationship.