“Dawn
Patrol” is a war drama based on the story by John Monk Saunders and Directed by
Edmund Goulding.
In
1915 in France, Major Brand (Basil Rathbone) has the burden of command of the
39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps sending pilots to almost certain death
every day.
The
young airmen go up daily in bullet-riddled “crates” and the casualty rate is
appalling, but Brand can't make the high command at headquarters see reason,
and if that was not enough insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney (Errol Flynn)
and his sidekick Scott (David Niven) are constant thorns in Brand's side.
The
film is a very gritty and accurate look at life, and death, in a Royal Flying
Corps fighter squadron and has a strong supporting cast including, Donald Crisp,
Melville Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald, Carl Esmond, Peter Willes and Morton Lowry.
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