Air Hawks (1935)
1h 8m
Running Time
May 7, 1935Release Date
Air Hawks (1935)
1h 8m
Running Time
May 7, 1935Release Date
Plot.
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Cast & Crew.
Ralph Bellamy
Barry Eldon
Victor Kilian
Tiny Davis
Tala Birell
Renee Dupont
Wiley Post
Wiley Post
Douglass Dumbrille
Victor Arnold
Robert Middlemass
Drewen
Edward Van Sloan
Schutter
Albert S. Rogell
Director
Griffin Jay
Writer
Niles Welch
'Marconi'
Grace Neville
Writer
Robert Allen
Bill Lewis
Billie Seward
Mona Greenwood
Ben Pivar
Writer
Henry Freulich
Cinematographer
Marianne Edwards
Dorothy Dunlap
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Air Hawks is a 1935 American aviation-themed science fiction film based on Ben Pivar's "Air Fury", an unpublished story. Director Albert Rogell who had moved from shorts to B-films, was interested in aviation and had already helmed The Flying Marine (1929) and Air Hostess (1933). In Air Hawks, the studio was able to add an A-list star, Ralph Bellamy, as well as exploiting the fame of record-setting pilot Wiley Post in his only feature film appearance.
Although limited in budget and production values, the introduction of a "death ray" elevated the modest programmer into the science-fiction genre.