Young Eagles (1930)
March 20, 1930Release Date
Young Eagles (1930)
March 20, 1930Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
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
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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 for Best Picture in 1927. Wellman cast Buddy Rogers again as his lead in the new film, but Young Eagles proved to be not as successful.