The Dawn Patrol (1930 film)

Not to be confused with The Dawn Patrol (1938 film) or Dawn Patrol (2014 film).

The Dawn Patrol
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHoward Hawks
Written byAdaptation & dialogue:
Dan Totheroh
Howard Hawks
Seton I. Miller
Contributing:
Ewart Adamson (uncredited)[1]
Based onThe Flight Commander
by John Monk Saunders
Produced byRobert North
StarringRichard Barthelmess
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
CinematographyErnest Haller
Edited byRay Curtiss
Music byRex Dunn (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byFirst National Pictures[1]
Release dates
  • July 10, 1930 (1930-07-10) (NYC)
  • August 20, 1930 (1930-08-20) (US)
Running time
90 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$729,000[2][3]
Box office$1,624,000 (worldwide rentals)[2][3]

The Dawn Patrol is a 1930 American pre-Code World War I film starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was directed by Howard Hawks, a former World War I flight instructor, who even flew in the film as a German pilot in an uncredited role.[4] The Dawn Patrol won the Academy Award for Best Story for John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service. It was subsequently remade in 1938 with the same title, and the original was then renamed Flight Commander and released later as part of the Warner Bros. film catalog.

  1. ^ a b c The Dawn Patrol at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ a b Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 15: 55–73. doi:10.1080/01439689500260031.
  3. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 10 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
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