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Young Eagles is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by William A. Wellman for Paramount Pictures. It stars Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Jean Arthur, and Paul Lukas. The story is based on the stories "The One Who Was Clever" and "Sky-High", written by American aviator and war hero Elliott White Springs. The film's hero is a "heroic combat aviator of the Lafayette Escadrille".
Wellman, himself a former pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps, for whom aviation was a passion, directed the film, the last of his "unofficial trilogy" that included Wings (1927) and The Legion of the Condemned (1928). The director had hoped that the film would prove as popular as his acclaimed World War I aviation drama Wings, which had won the first Academy Award in 1927. Wellman cast Buddy Rogers again as his lead in the new film, but Young Eagles proved to be not as successful.
Original Release
03/21/1930
US Release
03/21/1930
Cast
Name | Character |
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Charles 'Buddy' Rogers | Lieutenant Robert Banks |
Jean Arthur | Mary Gordon |
Paul Lukas | Von Baden |
Stuart Erwin | Pudge Higgins |
Virginia Bruce | Florence Welford |
Gordon De Main | Major Lewis |
James Finlayson | Scotty |
Frank Ross | Lieutenant Graham |
Jack Luden | Lieutenant Barker |
Freeman Wood | Lieutenant Mason |
Directors
Writers
Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Elliott White Springs
Cast
Name | Character |
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Charles 'Buddy' Rogers | Lieutenant Robert Banks |
Jean Arthur | Mary Gordon |
Paul Lukas | Von Baden |
Stuart Erwin | Pudge Higgins |
Virginia Bruce | Florence Welford |
Gordon De Main | Major Lewis |
James Finlayson | Scotty |
Frank Ross | Lieutenant Graham |
Jack Luden | Lieutenant Barker |
Freeman Wood | Lieutenant Mason |
George Irving | Colonel Wilder |
Stanley Blystone | Captain Deming |
Newell Chase | Bit Part |
Lloyd Whitlock | Bit Part |