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Wings In The Dark

1935, Movie, NR, 75 mins

Wings In The Dark: Review

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MGM loaned Loy to Paramount for this romantic adventure, her first film with Grant. Years later, they were to team up far more successfully in RKO's THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY SOXER and MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE. Grant is a pilot who thinks that too many lives have been lost due to flying in bad weather and fog, so he is busily working on instruments that will help cut down the death toll. Loy is an aviatrix who ekes out a living writing messages in the sky and doing various death-defying stunts under the management of Karns. Grant and Loy meet, and she falls hard for him, but he is quite aloof to her affection. He's terribly involved in his work on the flying machinery, and it appears as though he's made a final breakthrough when he is hurt in a gas explosion and loses his sight. He is depressed by this turn of events and moves to the country, accompanied by Cavanaugh, his long-time mechanic and best pal. With Cavanaugh and his seeing-eye dog as his only companions, Grant attempts to become a writer and sends item after item to the magazines. His only rewards are a raft of rejections, but he doesn't know that. Loy is working furiously at several different high-flying tasks, and she is sending checks to Grant. The checks are cashed, and he never is aware that the money is coming from her risking her neck. Because she's sending so much money to Grant, Loy can't afford to keep up the payments on her plane, and it is to be taken back by the manufacturer. She's in Russia planning a spectacular solo flight, and Karns wants her home right away, so she starts on her return and manages to make it across the Atlantic as far as Newfoundland before she is unable to continue due to the heavy fog. Using her radio, she calls several cities trying to get some help. News and sportscaster Graham McNamee gives the world the account of her perilous voyage, and Grant is listening all the way. He decides that he's in love with her and, with Cavanaugh as his seeing-eye-man, they break into a hangar, take up a plane, and Grant contacts Loy on the radio. The two talk over the air, fall even more deeply in love, and then Grant uses new equipment to talk Loy down to a safe landing. Karns gets whatever laughs he can in his role as Loy's manager, and Cavanaugh, using his thick Scottish accent, chimes in with a good turn as Grant's aide-de-vision. The picture was produced by the man who later became Loy's first husband. She was not thrilled with the stipend MGM was paying, so she moved to England right after this and waited until the studio management people came to their senses and gave her the kind of money she demanded and deserved. A good editing job by Shea, especially in all the flying sequences which provided the visual excitement in the film. Note a very young Dean Jagger, appearing high-billed in only his third movie, after YOU BELONG TO ME (1934) and THE WOMAN FROM HELL (1929). leave a comment
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